u/MinecraftIsLife12345

Hianime got taken down 13th march. Aniwatchtv.to got taken down about a month and a half after that. Aniwatch also went down with 9animetv.to, 4anime.gg, anicrush.to and kaido.to.

If you go on everything moe, it has all those sites grouped under the hianime section.

I don’t think this is a coincidence. I remember hearing about a new law. IIRC, it says that once a lawsuit is won to take down a pirate site, any related sites can be put on a blacklist and blocked without having to go through further lawsuits. I think that’s what happened here.

a lot of people say to gatekeep site names so crunchroll doesn't hear about them. however, what if crunchyroll can just go on index sites and find out about names from there? iirc, there's even a megathread on the piracy subreddit that lists some anime sites

We all know that the video screen says about the fire and the data centre. But other than that the website still works. You can still upload comments. But no new episodes will be uploaded.

I was wondering if the site will stay up? It has an amazing search and filter features that I still want to use, to search stuff and try to watch it elsewhere.

i am aware of the data centre fire. the week leading up to that, i was experiencing some issues with the videos playing where the video player would show up white and say something about megaup.nl not being available or something.

can you explain to me if there were any other struggles anikai faced before closing down? i heard that the data centre fire was kind of like the final straw in the problems the devs were facing

regarding the data centre that had the fire. it was multiple sites using that data centre, not just anikai. there were a lot of movie sites as well that i use that used the data centre. if the data centre does recover from it (i'll know because my movie sites will work again) then what'll happen to anikai?

is this a reasonable question or am i clinging on to hope?

i've been pirating anime regularly for about 4 months now, so i'm still quite new. from people who have been pirating anime for a long time, is the frequency and speed of the recent anime takedowns ever like something you've experienced in the past?

thumbnail previews are when you put your mouse on the play bar and an image appears to show you where you are in the video. anikai had thumbnail previews when i was on chrome or opera browser.

do you know any anime sites with thumbnail previews? it is a feature that i find very useful. please reply with the site domain and the browsers it works on.

other sites besides anikai are down too. there's hianime.ws which is related to anikai. there's also 2 movie sites that i've seen called flixzone.co and moontv.to go down too. they all say the same thing about the data centre being burned. i'm scared

piracy sites are being taken down quickly and i keep hearing about new anti piracy laws that'll make it easy for any new piracy sites that pop up in the future to be taken down easily. this is a scary time for us.

we all know that piracy sites have a lot of old and or obscure anime that the legal sites like crunchyroll, netflix, prime video etc don't have. when the pirate sites are gone, so will our access to those old/obscure anime. getting physical media versions of these anime will be incredibly tough if not outright impossible.

if there are any anime that you have yet to watch (or just want to have your own copy of) that you are sure won't be on legal streaming sites, then consider torrenting and downloading the anime. this may be your only chance to save the anime you want before they are lost forever.

i know that there are some old anime or OVAs uploaded on youtube. however if the anime is more explicit it can't be uploaded to youtube. or the explicit parts will have been cut out.

thanks to piracy i have found some really old yaoi/bl anime OVAs that i have really loved. i know that stuff will never be uploaded to legal streaming platforms. i also know that it would be incredibly hard for me to get dvds or other physical media.

download the stuff you love before it's too late