Massive Anime Pirate Sites like AniWave Got Forcefully Shutdown Today

Anime and Manga piracy go hand in hand with each other than most media. Thanks to it taking years for Anime and Manga companies taking decades to catch up to fan translation release times. It caused most of the active community to be more piracy leaning. Doesn't help when you have culture wars going on in some of our favorite anime. Anyways massive anime / manga pirate sites were forcefully shutdown today like Aniwave.

#anime

Love you all so much thank you for all the support!

[Crosseyedhero]

I’ll buy figures, I’ll buy plushies, I’ll buy T-shirts, I’ll buy DVDs, and I’ll buy all sorts of anime merch. But I’ll never pay for a streaming service that functions worse and acts scummier than a pirate site!

[danielferrieri]

If Streaming Services hate Pirate Sites, why not make the streaming platform actually good?

[flatmarssociety]

aniwave was literally better than every paid site and has features that crunchyroll needs

[Pyovali]

Why would I go to a streaming service which
A: Doesn't even have licenses for *my country*.
B: Doesn't even sub in my language
C: Has platform specific censorship
It's a service issue. Why would I pay for a service which doesn't even offer the basic things I need or offer inferior experience?

[aytgh]

If they made anime available uncensored affordably, piracy would not be such an issue. But NO, they demand censorship.

[jonson]

Reasons for people to pirate:
1) Service issue: availability, bad subs, bad dubs, bad quality, censorship
2) Price: too expensive for some
3) Principle: They do it just because

And I think it is in this order of significance.

[TheWhiteMamba]

Piracy is actually profitable for companies in the long run by creating fans who then buy merchandise and physical copies of mangas and anime. Advertising via word of mouth is such a powerful thing.

Premium sites keep removing features while increasing the price then use politics to say your criticism is unjustified.

[Dr.SwagPHDinDrip]

the reason piracy is so rampent, is because of lack of access. Anime are never all available in one place, and if they are, subscriptions are getting more and more expensive, and multi-tier subscription plans are really an ass pain, why do i have to pay money to watch ads. Making anime openly accessable, such as making good subscription deals, making anime not regionally blocked, making services user friendly, etc. Just doing these things will help, and I know that the reality of some of what this is, is trying to adjust to economic situations, but i personally feel that its kind of dumb. Lower prices means more users in my limited knowledge of business.

[jaykayjk]

This gave me PTSD of when KissAnime shut down 😭

[brianjanssens]

Let me list the reasons for why you SHOULD pirate and skip official streaming platforms:
1. Its free, duh
2. Its accesible
3. Its easy to use
4. Its optimized
5. Fast uploads
6. Way bigger content library
7. Uncensored content available
8. Official streaming services can actually leak your data, but pirate platforms don't even require an account in the first place.
9. Quality of life features (skip intro or ending button, heck for One Piece it skips to the title card so it can also skip recaps)
10. More interactive community and comment section.

[ElegantNoise_]

When I went on Aniwave and saw that goodbye message, my heart shattered... It was literally one of, if not THE best anime streaming site.

Farewell Aniwave.

[andreisg]

Anime companies, game companies, or any type of company should have a talk with the Ultrakill developer.
For those who don't know, Ultrakill is an indie game made by 1 person, saw a pic of someone pirating his game and quote tweeted the fact he is okay with piracy cuz without piracy.

"As creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it. ULTRAKILL wouldn't exist if hadn't had easy access to movies music and games growing up. If you don't have money, you can support via word of mouth."

[regret.]

Whitebeard: You may try to destroy their spirit, but you will never extinguish their flame. So it has been and so it shall continue to be from now till the very end of time. And one day in the future, when we’re all dead and gone. Someone will arise carrying generations upon generations of our history on his shoulders and he’ll throw down the gauntlet in front of the entire world.

[kidd]

Lets not forget Crunchyroll use to be a pirate site… good ole days 😭🏴‍☠️

[dinopirate]

as someone pointed out, all of these sites were owned by the same creator, so it makes sense those all got taken down on the same day

[jdedrington]

"How can we staunch piracy?"
"Timely distribution, reliable translations, and user-friendly platforms that encourage fan discussions?"

"Johnson, you're fired."

[itsmeyuu]

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

[AntifirstAmendmentSenators]

Piracy is what made anime popular to begin with.

[derpymule]

The annoying thing is you know how much effort and resources went into these takedowns, and you also know they aren’t going to do squat. Nobody on the entire planet is going to look at the takedown and say “oh well, time to switch to paid streaming services.” It’s a colossal waste of time and money that serves zero purpose besides sending a message that we’ve all been ignoring for decades. It’s just posturing and diplomacy that tosses a huge amount of people under the bus just because not wanting to use crunchyroll’s nonsense marks them as acceptable casualties.

[TeaBurn]

I still remember when Netflix first started (around the time they used to send physical discs to stomp out Blockbuster), piracy for the first time actually went _down_ because it was more convenient than pirating or paying for expensive cable. Nowadays, subscription streaming services cost just as much as cable, and it's easier to pirate than subscribe to all the services that also hate their customers and show it by intentionally gloating about changing the source material or through censorship.