Oh what sweet irony that as a Canadian my neighbour’s government has a huge stick up their ass that anime piracy sites are a bigger threat than…oh idk…economic crisis and the fact there’s literally multiple wars going on across the world
Bro us has gone crazy instead of doing anything for their economy or student loans
They have decided that pirate site is most dangerous for them
Even if all the streaming sites go down they will never be able to stop the torrents. Just make sure you download through a VPN.
I miss the times when the US government didn’t care what people were watching on pirated sites and actually focusing on bigger threats 
Maybe if the legit sites were actually good. “Piracy is a service issue”
this is bullshit stop going after anime sites
who the fuck is using AnimeFLV from the us tho
They rather fork us then improving and giving us better service.
its really sad that I just wont be able to watch some anime now. Glad I was able to watch what I did when I could…
Oh wow, major piracy sites get listed as major piracy sites, and the government wants to stop piracy. No shit they’re gonna call it a threat.
Seriously, this shouldn’t be surprising whatsoever. Think of what would happen if a piece of media copyrighting major IP like Disney or Nintendo got this popular. It’d get sued into the fucking dirt. We’re lucky that we have any of these at all, let alone sites of quality.
Rule one of online piracy is to keep your fucking head down. Pop your head up and you’ll be shot.
It’s the same with games emulation, it’s the same with video piracy, it’s the same with music piracy. Don’t advertise, don’t make attempts to get yourself big, don’t make any serious attempt to make money. We’re all here for free shit, we all know this is technically illegal, we all know these guys can go down at any time.
Does it suck? Yes. Should the people actually making the content be getting a much bigger slice of the pie? Yes. Is being a narc cool? No. But are they in their rights to take all of this down? Just about, yeah.
So what I’m interpreting from the numbers I’ve linked below is that MPAA is a “non-profit” (read: lots of tax write-off money being washed around and distributed internally) who lobbies whichever party is in control of congress and the senate at the time so that they can apply legal pressure wherever and however they feel the need. Right now the majority of the money is going to the Democrat Party, but in 2014 it was going to the Republican Party - it’s just whoever is more useful to achieve their goals and right now apparently Schiff hates anime lol.
I don’t know how they count as a non-profit because they make their money from membership fees and being paid to review movies (yes they are part of the rotten tomatoes score by critics that no one looks at). They get money based on a subscription based model with the membership stuff, and they are paid to provide a service in the form of reviews. They also take donations (hollywood has deep pockets, so I imagine studios aren’t giving little $300 gifts here and there either). The only way I could see a case to be made for them to be a nonprofit is that they go after legal cases for copyright infringement of their own volition for “free.” Which I’m sure is as a favor/on behalf of the members who ultimately make the decision (like Disney, Sony, Netflix, etc.). They can also accept donations so it’s not hard to imagine them opening up a legal case on behalf of an anime agregator company like Crunchyroll or Amazon and then the beneficiary “donating” boat loads of money to MPAA to support the non-profit (which makes that donation the same as paying a team of lawyers and having that payment be a viable tax right off). The order may be reversed, and I’m not saying that’s what happened to begin with.
It’s all crooked but twisted to sound like it’s all for the sake of fighting piracy. They were originally created to fight government censorship on behalf of Hollywood but are now a lobbying organization captured by Hollywood so the government and the media industry can work together more efficiently to achieve whatever goals either side wants. Lovely.
They are still playing a losing battle regardless of their efforts. Like what makes them think in their tiny little acorn brains that taking down these two sites will solve anything? People will just migrate to another as long as related sites keep popping up or exist in the first place. Its like using your bare fist to punch a cement wall.
Meanwhile nyaa.si keeps on winning. Time to torrent everything
Lmfao not funny but can’t help but chuckle
Bah, was annoying enough trying to switch to Hianime
I can’t fucking have anything nice can I?
Bro wtf I been pirating anime since fucking jetix now I can’t find a site 
how bout you focus on stopping school shootings instead of taking down Japanese cartoons
Fuck America.
Can’t stand the Undead Eagle.
Looking forward to the next reincarnation. Then the next. Then the next. They’ll never learn.