Over 30 Anime Piracy Websites Shut Down This Month - A Major Blow to Illegal Streaming

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Torrenting will become huge again

I mean... when did it stop being huge?
It's just back to business as usual.
- Hugest

Like others I've ~~seen~~ been torrenting my episodes instead, but man... I miss the convenience.

Don't get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they're the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I'm typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it... it's a bit of a bother, you know.

Hey.
Want convenience?
Miru is more convenient than even crunchyroll from what I experienced.
https://miru.watch/
- Going to test this later, thank you!
- Awesome, thanks!
I miss the convenience.
I busted off my convenience for a little bit when setting up Plex + Riven + Zurg (the same could be said about my Arr stack) after that huge learning curve it is all about convenience baby, I get all my stuff in all my devices with one single account, keep the progress of the full library even pair it up with services such as Trakt, and I can even share the love.
For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.
It's a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it's done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)
- I just tested this now. This is brilliant, thank you for the idea! I wasn't even aware that the torrent site could generate RSS for search queries!
  For now I'm simply following those RSS feeds through liferea, but later on I might even automate it further.
I know there are ways to have torrents automatically download when they appear, so you could set it up to have your episodes download as soon as they're ready and you can watch them at your convenience. I don't recall how, but I know I've read about that, but never needed it myself. I'm sure it's easy to find the resources online.
- I ended picking Miru (from another comment) up to watch anime, so I won't automatise the system - I'll use the RSS just to warn me when there are new episodes. That said, this extension (to allow transmission to download from rss) plus this site (to sift the RSS feed, so you don't download e.g. individual episodes alongside batches) could help.
- Setting up Sonarr is pretty easy, and using it is even easier. I definitely recommend it. Works great for me with Plex/Jellyfin.
If you want convenience, go for jellyfin/plex, radarr, sonarr, browlarr, usnet/torrent indexer and jellyseer.
Nothing is more convenient.
Sonaar with Plex/Jellyfin is about as convenient as you can get. The only thing missing from torrents, usenet, and now even Crunchyroll itself is comments.

I feel like all people recommending torrenting here are not really understanding the users of those streaming portals. I use them because I dont want to torrent the newest anime epiaode every week and I dont want any automated torrenting setups, because every mistake/fuck up might result in a 3 to 4 digit fine.

I torrent when it actually makes sense for me (high quality or offline viewing) and stream the rest. I am grateful for all those that provide me with those streaming sites and I regularly recommend them to friends after I install an adblocker for them.

They are pointing to a solution, not saying streaming is bad.
Where are you that you could face such a steep punishment? Setting up safe, automatic tormenting is really easy
- It's legitimately a non issue, set the torrent software to only connect to the VPN end point
- Germany
Why don't you just use real debrid or something and stream the torrents remotely?
- I am gonna give you a couple answers for that based on what I have read in other places such as Reddit, perhaps OP does not agree with them.
  RD or debrid services in general are paid services and it goes against their piracy beliefs (This is the silliest thing I could ever read... It only makes sense if you don't care for quality and/or you haven't tried a debrid service in your life).
  Streaming torrents even paired with debrid services or VPNs (not needed when using a debrid service, or in some countries for bare torrenting) is more cumbersome than just using a website (even in this day and age when Stremio exists), which I kinda agree with them... But you get what you pay for... Am I right?
  They just don't have a clue of what a debrid service is.
- Sounds like streaming from a streaming site with extra steps. But yeah when I torrent I use a cheap seedbox and then download from there to my own hardware.
You could do a semi-automated system where you have all your currently airing in RSS, but still need to manually start them. It'd at least save you from having to go searching every time.
- Sounds cool, maybe I will try this when I play around with piracy tools again
Seedbox?
- I use one, but its a cheap legacy contract and I literally just torrent there, seed till I have a ration if 1 and then download to my own hardware

Cut off one head and two more shall appear. Hail hydra!

My favorite anime website is down; good thing FMHY has a bunch of great ones to choose from. Migrating sucks, though.

Do streaming sites actually work for others? Like reliably? At least for me, sometimes they work okay, and I can watch a movie without any buffering, but most of the time I have to deal with lots and lots of buffering. Sometimes every few seconds even. Maybe it's because of the VPN? Never tried it without. But then again, even with a VPN, I get around 75Mbps.

Thank God we have torrents, but what makes me most sad about this is that many of these sites have unique catalogs that torrents don't have or that you can never get seeds from... being honest, I would 100% migrate to torrent if it didn't have this small big problem.

sadfasfsadfd

So. What android apps and extensions are still best? Dantotsu with extensions seems hit and miss. Probably due to these takedowns.

For manga, I use Kotatsu
https://kotatsu.app/
For anime, I use Miru
https://miru.watch/
- Im new here but have you tried stremio? Its free
- Am I missing something or is Miru $13.99 for the Android app? Just want to make sure I'm looking at the right thing before I buy it. Also really surprised something like this is on Google Play.
  I was using Aniyomi but I think ot's almpst at the end without extension updates...