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NEWS: Crunchyroll Streaming Service Down Amid DDoS Attack

Kougeru wrote:

Despite being legit now, they still do a lot of things that upset people and I personally have a grudge against them so I'll admit I laughed when I read this. If anyone deserves it that has had it this month, it's CR. Also they never got punished for being illegal but rather rewarded which i still find hilarious.

I don't know what Crunchyroll did that deserved for them to get punish (Besides at the time illegally streaming anime, but then again it's thanks to this reason that they became an official streaming site where people can watch anime, drama, and webshows legally either for free or a cheap paid subscription), but as bored and lazy and strawberry-kun implied even if they did deserve it to have it affect the many people who use the site is terrible, and should not have happen even if Crunchyroll had it common to them. If it's a matter of punishing someone it should be done in a way that it would only affect the person/people responsible for the act. It should not be done in a way that it would affect the individual/group plus innocent people.

mdo7 wrote:

and just a little FYI: I think these same group of hackers are trying to DDOS ANN too according to Tempest.

From reading the messages from the other discussion that did explain why I kept seeing that page every time I visited ANN (something about directing to the site or something). That would also further explain why before then when I visited the site was down (and I was thinking it was due to maintenance). However I no longer seem to see that webpage before visiting ANN. Instead I am taken directly to the site as always.

But I don't get why someone, or is it a group of people, want to target ANN as well as Crunchyroll. I was thinking both websites are niche for someone like them to bother with. But from reading a couple of the responses of this topic I can idea now as to why. Either because they are both affiliated someone way to more mainstream sites, or that it doesn't matter whether a site is niche or mainstream that people like that would target them for whatever reason they have.

For me personally at the moment I don't have any series I was watching or plain to watch/catch up on at the moment on Crunchyroll, but however I was thinking about re watching Little Witch Academy because of how much I liked it. Kind of disappointing that I can't do that at the moment, but I do have other things to watch (as well as other things to do besides watching anime) so it doesn't affect me (that and I have yet to subscribe to them.) I do hope that they can bring the site back soon.

IT'S BACK! For now...

Don't really understand why Crunchyroll though. They're a relatively harmless company. The attackers must be heartless to try and take away anime from their fans.

Okay, this is getting pretty riGoddamndiculous.

So much for catchup binge watching. Might as well go to Netflix and watch Magi...before they get hit too

I've seen Hearthstone streamers get Ddos'd before...no one is above the petty rage of babies with an internet connection.

a deal with Venrock for 4 million

I would like to thank the people for taking down crunchyroll. My younger sister died two days ago. Now I can no longer immerse myself in watching Kuroko's basketball to ease the pain.

Thanks for the added misery.