..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.

It seems anime migrated from YouTube to CrunchyRoll and JSRACP will take action inevitably. And that would be the least of the site’s problems.

Looks like the site is 100% infringing and TechCrunch is right. DMCA DOES NOT offer any protection to the site or it’s founders. They can be all be liable, including HotorNot as a conspirator in the massive infringing operation.

The “donation” scam is a feeble attempt to circumvent the law as DMCA is EXPLICIT in defining an infringing entity “does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity.” In fact, the operation is so blatant and in-your-face that this will (not may) require criminal rather than civil enforcement.

Have they any numbers on the “pay for higher quality pirated content” Uhrumm business model?

–Rich

I think that should read “*ALL* of which is copyright infringing”.

The reason why it continues to do so well is that it is doing to asian cinema and anime what China / East Asia does with abandon to North American cinema — infringe the hell out of it, and then apologizes for it (take down) only when asked to.

The only reason why it continues to exist is because the companies that it infringes upon don’t — for whatever reason — want to flex their legal muscle across the Pacific Ocean against a North American company.

You can bet that if any of them ever did, Crunchyroll would go down faster than a wunderbed in a fistfight

Cheers
t @ dji

We probably won’t get Korea’s current speed that soon, at least not on as widespread or cheap a basis. Broadband in the U.S. is sad. But I’d prefer to be wrong about how quickly that will change.

Crunchyroll:
I can’t tell if some of the content is up from the creators but almost everything looks infringing that I can see on that site.