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Crunchyroll Signs More Anime Content Producers
Asian entertainment destination site Crunchyroll has announced a variety of new partnerships with three major Japanese anime studios today. The three studios are: TV TOKYO Corporation, SHUEISHA Inc. and Pierrot Co., Ltd. Back in March, Crunchyroll signed a variety of content distribution deals including with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Crunchyroll self-reports 4.6 million unique users a month. Crunchyroll also announced an upcoming relaunch of the site to verify that professionally-produced content is approved by licensors.
Earlier this year there was a good deal of talk around Crunchyroll and their copyright issues. It seems that Crunchyroll is following in the same footsteps as YouTube. Tony Hung took a look at CrunchyRoll and went deep into the copyright and believes that CrunchyRoll is a "legal landmine."
Well, it just goes to show that there’s a clear and provable model when it comes to things like Crunchyroll: build it — even if its illegal [crossing fingers strictly optional] — and before the copyright holders get wind of it, or if they’re lazy enough, try and flip the traffic with legal content. La voila. ;)
It’d be interesting to know if Crunchyroll would have gotten funding 6 months ago, prior to the economic melt down.
Keep up the good work Allen :)
t @ dji
TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where have you been?? the blogosphere just isn’t the same when you aren’t around. I really mean that.