Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.
  • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    So Sony bought the competition, then shut down their own offering…

    I understand this sucks from an accessibility perspective, but also, how the FUCK is this not anti competitive?

    • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Money. If you have enough laws, rules, ethics whatever become non issues.

      • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I mean, yeah, agreed, they’re not going to actually get any repurcussions, obviously. I meant more, why aren’t articles/people mad about it. We all know the laws don’t apply to them

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      How is this not a contractual violation? If you buy a company, you take on their contracts. You don’t get to throw them out the window.

      • wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        actually, you typically do. the company you made the contract with doesn’t exist anymore.

        also a ‘forever’ contract for ‘cloud’ (someone else’s computer) services is only as good as that other person’s computer stays on. anyone who thought that meant more than a few years, or that it would mean after the company stopped existing deserves whatever they get.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers’ digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2.

    For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming these digital copies of purchased movies and shows, but qualifying it: “forever, but there are some restrictions.”

    But in addition to offering video streaming, Funimation also dubbed and released anime as physical media, and sometimes those DVDs or Blu-rays would feature a digital code.

    For people lacking the space, resources, or interest in maintaining a library of physical media, this was a good way to preserve treasured shows and movies without spending more money.

    It also provided a simple way to access purchased media online if you were, for example, away on a trip and had a hankering to watch some anime DVDs you bought.

    Regarding refunds, Funimation’s announcement directed customers to its support team “to see the available options based on your payment method,” but there’s no mention of getting money back from a DVD or Blu-ray that you might not have purchased had you known you couldn’t stream it “forever.”

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  • jasep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Ugh, Sony sucks. I mean, so do all of these content providers. But yeah. Gross.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Now it seems like piracy of said content is the only way for us to preserve the content in those libraries.