this article is full of lies lies lies…….

Best Regards,
Joe

Seriously.. This article is a joke. Crunchyroll doesn’t host licensed anime. Users still may upload the occasional video when an anime is first licensed, but this is quickly fixed by disabling the uploads of videos to different animes once they’ve been informed of it being licensed. Viola, problem solved. And from my above rant, you can see how I feel about licensed anime as well, and don’t see why it should be illegal to host once licensed either. But my guess is that whoever read the rules has the same mindset as the moron who wrote this article. Rather than experiencing it for themselves and noticing these differences from a creative and artistic view, they see the opportunity to cause a groundless ruckus as an attempt to make money. In my opinion, there’s a reason some people wear a suit and tie to work, and some go to work sitting in front a canvas with a brush in hand. If the original artists have an issue, let them handle it. But to all of the suit and tie wearers of the world, shove off and find a way to make money on your own, rather than jumping all over someone else’s creations, that they made to be shared with the world, and trying to fight for who gets the rights over it.

Also, incase someone tries to say I’m a secret agent for crunchyroll posing to be an angry fan, you’re a moron. I do love the site, but I’m in no way affiliated with the company in any shape or form other than a normal user and supporter of it’s services.

..y también del Sushi!Crunchyroll es una especie de YouTube asiático o bien una nueva comunidad dedicada al Anime y otros contenidos similares en video, donde adicionalmente podemos conocer a otros fans devotos y hasta incluso chatear con ellos entre…

But if you seriously think about this, there are indeed millions of users. If only a handful of moderators work on keeping the site free of the bullshit some of these users post, then it is no wonder that some licensed material leaks through.

And also, CR can hardly be attacked for uploading licensed material, for as the article mentioned, YouTube is infringing nearly every copyright there is. However, the clincher for the anime producers is that it also serves as an advertiser. For not all episodes are uploaed to CR, so if a user gets hooked and wants to see the episodes they missed in high quality (cuz face it, CR quality is pretty shitty), they buy the dvd.

So in summation, just leave CR as it is. And if any anime producer wants to actually make money of of having their work stolen, they should make a quick deal with CR, because it can only get bigger.

Even if this was all a bullcrap it does lead to one question. Who is running Crunchyroll? DO you really believe Shinji was just some guy who created a very elegantly designed site (Beyond the skills of even the best site creaters without even daring to use a host which is also very unique) and then he hardly if ever posts on it but spends all his time working on it? That is just a ludicrous belief. I have two sites I run and I spend a lot more time posting on them and enjoying them then working on them I am sorry.

Also even if say Shinji did do that. Isn’t it funny how he is so nice and happens to be known as a great nice guy. Yet he gets millions of messages a day I am sure how is it any one person could respond to that? But a bunch of people working at a HotorNot office Could and Shinji is the perfect Mascot for the company.

I think there is a lot more going on here then just some Asian kid in California people.

The only reason why I migrated to crunchyroll from youtube is because youtube stupidly removed ALL anime from the site wheter if it was unlicensed or licensed.
My source of anime was cut off.
I really hope crunchyroll dosen’t end up like youtube.

And I fully agree with the 14th comment.

Later: “Crunchyroll has not raised any capital to date, but is talking to venture capitalists now.”

Which is it? Why print a rumor and then contradict it yourself?

Interesting statistics you have there though like 75k/month. Also the “20% monthly page view growth” is misleading. A quick check through Alexa shows that between August and September there was a large decrease in page views which then rebounded by the end of the month. So it seems that the statistic is pulled up higher because of some potential outliers. Now I don’t know how you produce your data, but this seems a bit questionable. I doubt the impartiality of the article to be honest.

Everything the 14th commenter said is true.

If you’re going to sue before requesting for the site to remove the show, something is wrong with you.

one possible explanation is that they don’t want people to think that they are losing focus from hotornot and focusing too much on this new effort… otherwise, people might assume that the hotornot guys don’t think that hotornot shows as much promise as this new idea…

its kinda like moonlighting… but siliconvalley style

i say sue the motherfuckers cause if they can’t come up with a better idea other than ripping off asian anime, cause they suck, then the world will be a better place without them.