One Piece leaked early
FUNimation shut down stream
The whole world is sad
I hope you enjoyed my haiku that summarizes FUNimation’s current situation. Basically someone accessed One Piece episode 403 a day before it was released in Japan, with subtitles and everything; and stuck it up on the internet. It was supposed to premier on FUNimation’s video site today (May 30) at 9 CDT, but ever since this went down the video streaming service has been shut off. It is currently unknown when the security breach will be fixed, and if it will be finished by the time the simulcast is supposed to air.
I can’t imagine Toei being too happy about this recent event. Let’s hope this does not hinder the simulcast any more than it already has.
Update:
FUNimation has responded to this attack with the following message.As anime fans know, FUNimation Entertainment and Toei Animation had planned for the first ever online simulcast of the series ‘One Piece’ tonight at 9:00 pm CDT., just one hour after its premiere on Japan’s Fuji Television. Unfortunately, in the last 24 hours we have determined that the FUNimation servers were compromised, even though we employ strict security standards. An unknown individual accessed and posted episode 403 online and as a direct result of this illegal act, all U.S. and Canadian fans will be deprived of access to this great anime series for the immediate future. We will make every effort to locate and prosecute the perpetrator(s)to the fullest extent of the law and will provide updates regarding this most serious matter
Silly funimation and their security gap.
This is really, really sad and discouraging, and it's probably the fault of handful of jerks.
What an unpleasant happening.
Toei's not the douchebag- they're trying to protect their ratings in Japan, as in the primary thing that keeps them employed and One Piece in production. This is something that might of actually threatened the further production of the show itself. Shows depend on ratings, dvd sales, advertising fees from legit streams, and cannot get by alone on fandom love [which given the situation, is apparently a creepy, clingy love of a bad boyfriend they should probably put a restraining order on]
The real "douchebag " here is the fan who got into Funi's website, posted it online, and the co-"douchebags" who fansubbed it, distributed and downloaded it. I wish fandom wasn't so full of these "douchebags".
I hate that fans keep shitting on anime companies, artists and industry employees when there's this large crowd of idiots who really deserve their hate, yet they keep defending. Funimation gave us something really nice, and as others have said, apparently we can't have nice things. If this is what anime fans do, and how they react to this situation, they deserve to have it taken away. I wish fans weren't so stupid. I'm tired of it.
Seriously though, this is really lame. I can't tell if this was fan stupid enough to think that fans shouldn't have to wait a day-- which is incredibly dumb considering that this was early for Japan as well --or, and I think this is more likely, that they're downright malicious.
Look, I'm not one for sitting here and bawling out every single fansub downloader in the world (talk about a waste of time). But why the hell do people think it's "cool"-- much less OKAY! --to intentionally ruin shit for the people who freakin' create and localize anime, and the fans who want to support those people?
They probably didn't even think of the consequences (I know I wouldn't have).