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Piracy is good and you should do more of it. Try https://everythingmoe.com/ for streaming, and https://nyaa.si/ for torrents. Piracy is the only means of digital protest that audiences have to fight poor worker treatment.
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I bought Crunchyroll for a year because it was like 3usd for me but I'd recommend using Nyaa for anime. It's simply the most reliable source.
I've used nyaa for many years. I never even knew about animekai because I've never felt a need to look elsewhere for anything.
Torrenting is definitely superior to streaming, the torrents always have a higher quality than the bitrates the streaming sites put out.
I generally prefer torrenting over streaming but not for anime.
I'm getting through some old series with 50+ episodes/season and can get through 8 episodes of a show on weekdays and 24+ on weekends.
I don't want to have to house that many episodes of many different series on my hard drive for something I won't rewatch. Rewatched shows I'll gladly torrent.
Damn, it's been a bad like 6 months or so to be running an anime piracy streaming site
Japan’s CIA is only good for one thing apparently
it's South Korea mostly
Must be NorthC in Almere. It didn't burn down, but there was a fire last Thursday. They are waiting for a critical component (delivery delayed) for their redundant power delivery, so lateron they can switch back without outages to normal power delivery from the national grid. The component is expected today and the datacenter powered up tomorrow according to NorthC as technicians will work round the clock once the component is in to get things back to normal.
That datacenter might be going back up but AnimeKai have a message telling people to backup their lists and promoting alternatives because they can't recover from this.