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NEWS: Crunchyroll Streaming Service Down Amid DDoS Attack

Good news, I can access Crunchyroll again.

I take it that they now resolved the DDOS issue.

mdo7 wrote:

Good news, I can access Crunchyroll again. I take it that they now resolved the DDOS issue.

strange... Still no access on my end.

Where is FBI?

Hmm, I had the impression that if Crunchyroll would suffer a direct attack like this, the motive behind it would've been because they're a legitimate anime distributor, and Crunchyroll, as an online-only entity, would be the one most affected by a DDoS attack.

To this day, I continue to encounter people, mostly offline, who seem to be big fans of fansubbing groups, and they quite strongly resent how anime and manga localization had really taken off from the late 90's and onwards. There are two main motivations for this: They don't like the way the anime and manga are adapted into English and REALLY don't like the way these adaptations displace their fansubbed versions; or the fansubbers they follow will stop translating a series they follow because an official English version will come out.

For instance, I recently tutored this kid who absolutely refuses to watch anime on Hulu, Netflix, or Crunchyroll, and in fact torrents all of his anime. When I asked why, even though all three have free subscriptions, he said it's because he can't stand watching the commercials. I'm guessing he's still too young to understand the idea of how money works, since he's at the age where he's unfamiliar with the concept of a paycheck, but you also would have a lot of teenagers and adults too immature to understand or too selfish to care, and it's these teenagers and/or adults whom I feel would be most likely to DDoS attack Crunchyroll: As revenge for killing off the fansubs they love so much, or perhaps as a small attack against the anime localization business they want wiped out.

I said I was morally opposed to that, and he still tried to force it "CR isn't helping the creators all of that much!". Like, yeah... Maybe not, but that doesn't justify pirating. This fandom and its false entitlement issues just know no bounds. He even tried to tell me that downloading fansubs and buying Blu-Rays would do more to help than streaming and buying Blu-Rays. He actually said, that yes.

I ran into someone on a discussion topic for the Wii U getting the CR app who was spouting nonsense about how streaming and CR are such low quality and that we should download fansubs instead.

I said I was morally opposed to that, and he still tried to force it "CR isn't helping the creators all of that much!". Like, yeah... Maybe not, but that doesn't justify pirating. This fandom and its false entitlement issues just know no bounds. He even tried to tell me that downloading fansubs and buying Blu-Rays would do more to help than streaming and buying Blu-Rays. He actually said, that yes.

reminds me a bit of this one "fansub purist" from JAFAX the year we somehow got Tiffany Grant as a guest, who went ON AND ON AND ON about how dubs, even good ones, "fundamentally alter" the show and how because of that true fans shouldn't support dubs at all. no sense, no logic, just trying to justify going for fansubs instead of legit products. (BTW, you should have heard his attempts to say why importing BDs if they came with English subs wasn't an option. it was a riot.)

Soooo, Why Crunchyroll?

Unlike years ago, they're completely legit now.
They're of the anime subculture (If you want to go that far).
to my knowledge, Crunchyroll members don't tend to have any weird political leanings.
Crunchyroll usually doesn't tend to steal show licenses from Funimation or hulu.

I want to say that it isn't due to it being in the anime biz.

However crunchyroll does show up next to names like Netflix and hulu (at least in the background), so if someone wanted to make a statement against streaming without making a huge statement It could be a possible choice (for them).

Most likely though, is just a group of bored Hackers doing it "Because it's there" (maybe to get people to go to their Illegal streaming sites?).

at least its happening when the Japanese TV Seasons change, so we have the fewest shows being affected...

The part that does not make sense is why no one has claimed to have DDoSed the crunchyroll site. Script kiddies LOVE bragging rights, So it point that it indeed an extortion (attempt?) by the mafia or crunchyroll was not prepared for the high end of year and made false accusations to save face.