Re: R.I.P Nyaa/Sukebei
Longpost is long.
oh boohoo an official licencor was/is shutting down the pirating competition. cry me a river. oh wait, you already are.
if oversea's sees that we are paying for their products and not just stealing them. they are more likely to officially release more products in the west in english.
look at alicesoft. they didn't release anything in the west due to pirating and the negative stigma over rapelay. so they tested the waters with haruka which was a success and now they are releasing rance games and more (supposedly).
long story short, shutting down pirates is not a bad thing. they mostly lose the fanbase that wouldn't have payed for the product anyways.
You don't understand example you have presented yourself.
Alicesoft was picked by Mangagamer a GLOBALLY publishing company, therefore piracy is their direct "competition" as well as by releasing product they're plugging hole they've created by removing pirated copies from circulation.
CR is US-CENTRIC company targeting MOBILE market, global piracy platforms aren't their competitions because they have no intention of covering holes they've created therefore causing hydra to spawn new heads because outside of america hole needs to be plugged with something and the only thing that attempts to fill that hole are fansubbers.
Hosting streaming service costs money, same goes for translators, editors and other workers, fee for Japanese stations and such.
Is it a shit move? Yes, same as firing people.
They are not gigantic platform like YT, not as big as Netflix, but like every business they need money (both as income and to pay for stuff).
Lower quality means lower size. Lower size means less space on server, less space means more stuff per GB, which means less money.
This is that simple.
No money, more cuts, keep that up and you go down.
But hey, we can go back to hardcore fansubbing, that one is free and people work there for free.
Let's flip a middle finger to whole Japan, yes, we want your stuff, give it for free, let other Japanese pay for it.
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
-Gabe Newell
CR is shitty legal alternative, face it.
Lowering quality of your product silently won't get you new customers in capitalism, it will turn them toward competition or piracy since both are better.
People will pay extra for quality you can easily see it in other services so why is CR doing the opposite? To save space? Surely it will save you a lot of space when your customer base shrinks at very fast rate.
If they wanted to change "1080" (can't fucking call it that at this point) to 1,5MBps bitrate because they think that most of their users are on mobile then they should have changed it only for mobile users and pray that they won't notice, but to do that to everything on their site thinking that 24" monitor viewed from half meter wouldn't notice noticeable change in quality is just stupidity, then they kept it silent for a month wishfully thinking that shitstorm will go away and everyone will accept new "quality" just shows what they think about customers, they don't give a shit.
Now let's compare it to company that cares,
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(This is btw "new better quality" from CR)
How can German company stay in quality for 10 years? Because quality brings money, CR tries to offer quantity to gain monopoly and falls under it's own weight.
The Japanese companies don't give a shit about westerners. They've left that almost solely in the hands of idiots over here until just recently. And they have no idea what they're doing.
They do care,
First we bring them considerable revenue:
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(Graphs from Association of Japanese Animation)
See, in that graphics titled '日本のアニメの海展開' - that covers the sales market of anime overseas. In that graph, North America (北米) comprise 12.3%, European Union (欧州) comprise 25.8%, and Eastern Europe (東欧) comprise 1.3% for a total of 39.4%. That's even more than all of Asia (アシア) at 38.9%.
Second, more and more western companies are participating in product's production offloading cost from Japanese companies.
Third Japan only recently entered global markets like Steam, they're 13 years behind us so naturally there will be mistakes made but who loved steam in 2004? No one. Give it a time.
Put the leecher-stealers in charge of everything. Perfect solution. I love how a free community full of sharing and camaraderie can be poisoned and stabbed to death by the two biggest fuckboy websites in Internet history. First it was FAKKU with eromanga and doujinshi, stealing content for years and then working behind the scenes to sell out their competition for money. Then, CrunchyRoll and their shitty streaming service, legitimizing their years of stealing fansubs to make OUR SUBZ DO NOT STEL!
I don't begrudge Japanese artists and game makers working with westerners for translations. I do begrudge them trying to turn the west into their personal piggy bank like they have Japanese consumers. Japanese otaku shill out more for two episodes than I do for a season of a western show. And they're still replete with terrible translation decisions. Take a look at the shit show that the Prison School anime was subjected to when released.
If you want to commit sudoku while prostrating before your CrunchyRoll masters, leave me out of it please.
Thanks for showing that everything you know comes from 4Chan.
Let's start HISTORY LESSON!
Crunchyroll was first to go legal and by almost 8 years :V
CR started pouring only legal content in 2009, 3 years into it's existence in sea of piracy these 3 years are like nothing.
Then in 2013 they were sold to new owners and in 2014 AT&T joined therefore it was obvious that company is going to be shit, like no revelations here when you're owned by one of shitties corps in US...
3 years in piracy and they could become legal alternative nullifies your statement that "The Japanese companies don't give a shit about westerners."
However CR blew up quickly and imploded even quicker, it had a chance to become THE service but money was better to original creators and was sold to heartless capitalism machine so there's little future in this service.
How did their cry for not pirating their subs worked so far? Well HorribleSubs is surely lively as always, even if HS disappear hydra will get new head as you can't kill fansubbing without replacing it with equal or better service but AT&T won't understand that when they have huge telecommunication monopoly in US, you can only hope that they won't lobby to become anime monopoly too.
FAKKU! is whole lot of different deal, hentai community refuses to pay for Japanese content, here we are on this piracy forum and here we have You typical hentai "consumer" throwing tantrum that legal alternatives can spawn in sea of piracy that's available by simple google search.
Most importantly, FAKKU isn't fighting piracy, you're free to continue fapping without spending a dime. Jacob said that he understands why piracy is here and won't fight it.
FAKKU was created in 2006 because back then accessing hentai back then was equal to visiting a lot of shady sites inviting a lot of malware (remember these beautiful times? Yeah Nyaa made it fucking easy to forget) as aggregator of random hentai content so you don't need to risk malware for quick fap. Unfortunately site was unsustainable and closed for half year.
This is good time to tell you that what are you imagine as free ads money in fact is very very small money it can be 0.001$ per 10k views if you're undesirable for advertisers just like brutal or porn content.
But even back then if you bothered to read forum (I know you didn't that's why I will quote it for you there) you would know that legal transition is ultimate goal of FAKKU, "Eventually I want to start translating the more popular manga titles, I want to talk with Japanese publishers and get them to ship us the actual manga and sell it on the site. There is so much that FAKKU still has in store!" -Jacob 2007
In following years FAKKU allowed fan translation teams to upload their works to FAKKU and work from their server space, yeah teams had safe space on FAKKU where they had no danger of being suddenly removed by hosting and their works were seen as their rather than single page at the end of upload like on other sites.
In 2011 FAKKU made deal with Kitty Media to legally stream their subbed hentai on site for free. There goes gathering money from adverts, ehh?
In 2014 Wanimagazine entered Cease and desist rampage in western hentai world killing many sites and fan-translations which didn't miss FAKKU as well, the difference was that instead of closing or going further underground Jacob decided to take a chance to strike deal with them to became legal publisher to which they agreed to which again nullifies your point that "The Japanese companies don't give a shit about westerners" because if they didn't they would just refuse Jacob and there would be no legal hentai in the west. They even went as far as allowing slow transition and pirated content was slowly removed instead of instant purge.
The rest is what we have now, a damn good quality legal source of hentai for decent price, striking 2 birds with one stone because the rise of FAKKU also forced Project-Hentai the only other legal global distributor of hentai to raise quality because they were shit like CR in both their physical and digital files.
On top of that since, current FAKKU employees are ex-fantranslators that stayed with FAKKU until the very end also including Daiz whom you don't know but he almost single handedly popularized H.264 (.mkv) encoding which brought us anime quality you know today - a great quality with reasonable file sizes.
I know this won't change you but I pay for good quality products provided by good service, unfortunately global anime scene lacks more of "Daiz" who would crusade for it and this shitty lingering from last century business model that movie distribution needs to be restricted by borders.
On the other hand hentai market despite negative people like you is growing, we now have good legal hentai manga publisher working with Comic Book Legal Defense Fund so police won't knock on your doors for jerking to anime,
Companies like MangaGamer and Sekai Project who translate hentai games despite problems like developers not having original assets therefore there being no uncensored version (FOR FUCK SAKE Front Wing WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT) or payment processors throwing a fit whenever loli appears.
Patreon projects which show that there's definitely market for fully English hentai,
and I hope that soon we will get global platform to replace DLSite which is terribley ancient and greedy toward developers (topkek is Steam becomes that, american puritans will get heart attack) while Japanese indie hentai scene is just as much shitty as western indie scene there are still gems that are worth buying and definitely deserve audience and full translation.
