Wild how Crunchyroll started as a piracy site, worked its way to becoming legal, and is now the very thing it was created as an opposition to.

You'll own nothing and like it!

I don't need physical media, a DRM-free download that I can save on my own will do.

Sony? Doing something awful? Who'd have thought it?

I've already found what I needed while sailing on my ship. Sony can get fucked.

Rightstuf died for this.

You will own nothing and like it.

excellent thumbnail

if buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing.

Have to say it: an outraged Myne is the perfect thumbnail image for this headline. 👌🏻

Isn't Sony one of the biggest manufactures of bluray disks in the entire world? Why the fuck are they scaling down their physical media production instead of trying to expand the monopoly, especially since Japan hasn't gotten over their physical media consumption? This seems like a really bad case of "line must go up".

I'm gonna be mad if Frieren doesn't keep getting Blu-ray releases. Just yesterday I was checking to see if season 2 was released yet in English.

Sony be like: “I hate the wind, I hate wisdom. I am going to become the opposite of Mestionora.”

Considering Sony's/CR's near monopoly on both streaming and physical anime, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically...

No, peasant, you can't own your media. Now sit down and consume whatever we put before you!

If the media will only be available digitally, then I will only be pirating it

I have a weird theory that the reason this is happening is physical media was on the low end of sales anyway but it was valuable to Sony and other game makers to keep the relationship with the retailers and prestige of being on the shelf but the stupid Tariffs that got thrown around by idiots made moving physical goods a nightmare and to be stable companies side step Tariffs by going digital only.

The store was a ghost town for months before the "update." Truly flooding the grave of TRSI with piss.