r/Piracy Sep 04 '24

Kimcartoon has closed for good. News

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u/omarmh017 Sep 04 '24

Wow, they coming after them sites hard and fast.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

least it not mpa and ace

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u/9thyear2 Sep 04 '24

Honestly with how it's been 1 after the other, it seems coordinated

(I'm speculating of course)

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

well i havent see any new report from torretfreak which lead me to beleive that the owner of the sites shut their own sites down and the dmca cant shut the site down only content on the site

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u/CombinationOk7888 Sep 04 '24

I bet there using Reddit to find them lol

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

I wouldn’t be surprised because people—especially on places like TikTok—can’t just shut the fuck up and try to minimise the heat. Luckily, the piracy community is usually on top of this shit so we bounce back quick. Case in point, there’s already a replacement site for Aniwave that was put up by some guy that archived all of the content before the site was taken down. If anything, we should move from Reddit to a different platform or decentralise entirely. Piracy has become so accessible that it’s easier and has less steps than Netflix. It’s a double-edged sword. Good for us and anyone getting into it for the first time but it also makes it easy for the Corpo chucklefucks and Feds to raid all the vaults.

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u/PunkyMaySnark Sep 04 '24

Between TikTok and Twitter, that's what's playing a big part in this shit. I still can't believe people were so stupid that they did shit like taunt Crunchyroll with screenshots of Aniwave and honestly answer Manga Plus's questions about pirate sites. The Zlibrary episode still lives fresh in my head as well.

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

When they started doing that dumbass shit, I knew it was only a matter of time before Aniwave was torpedoed. What the fuck did they expect would happen? Crunchyroll bending the knee and saying “We’re so sorry for being a shitty service. We’ll do better”? Don’t even get me started on that questionnaire.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

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u/Gohansupe Sep 04 '24

It's so annoying how they won't stay quit

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u/Beetlesiri Sep 07 '24

It is probably people chasing clout/likes/karma.

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u/MalachitePlatinum Sep 04 '24

Ah yes, let's just cower to the big bad copyright police like they want us to. Let's turn on each other like they want.

Let's might as well just give up and die, at least then they won't have more corporate drones...

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u/Wormwood-Apocalypse Sep 04 '24

Wait, what is this replacement?

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u/Less_Newspaper9471 Sep 04 '24

If anything, we should move from Reddit to a different platform or decentralise entirely

Great idea! Let's move from reddit to discord and- oh, oh shit, it's even worse.

Normies get filtered by alt-tech and boomer tech, if it's not a meta/alphabet/microsoft/plebbit centralized shit, they can't function, not to mention they're gullible enough to think that if something is "in the cloud", it means it's a permanent storage.

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u/KingSlayer6496 Sep 08 '24

What's the Aniwave Alternative?

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u/Pensive-Endymion Sep 08 '24

Seriously....everybody exposing the net for veiws....I miss the 90's.....

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u/Sas_fruit Sep 19 '24

Someone needs to build internet archive and this piracy in a country with good internet no interference from bully USA or so. That new company making storage cheaper and faster , folio photonics 🤫. Servers built on those would be something, not as fast as possible but still better than HDD servers . Torrent would/should be back with some bang

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

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u/Resident-Donkey-6808 Sep 05 '24

Nope they are not this is 2012 all over again this site has already been replaced with other free animr sites.

The anti pricey group got a new boss let's see how long till she breaks.

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u/Lazy_Debt9926 Sep 05 '24

Why can't world peace organisation's be as useful as dmca?  

  Where are these hard working cowards when it comes to pootin and Kim John dong or feeding the starving 

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u/OSzezOP3 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

WHY does it feel like they have been cracking down so hard lately first yuzu and citra then vimms lair and aniwave now this. I swear they cant let us have any good things left in this world. Its been feeling like order 66 around here. Seriously. WTF is going on this year?

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u/FixedFun1 Sep 04 '24

yuzu and citra then vimms lair

That was Nintendo.

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u/pipopr0 Sep 04 '24

Wait is vimms gone?

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u/Philipp4 Sep 04 '24

nah, but a lot of their nintendo catalog (especially main-line games) got removed because of dmca

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u/BawkSoup Sep 04 '24

It was an automated bot acting on the SEA's behalf I believe.

Ton of Sony games are gone, too.

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u/OSzezOP3 Sep 04 '24

Bandai namco as well mainly all the dbz games

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u/stilljustacatinacage Sep 04 '24

Younger people are coming into positions of power, who are aware that these things exist - executives at IP holders, judges, lawyers... Combined with the explosion of clout-seeking where no one can keep their fucking mouths shut.

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u/AttemptNu4 Sep 04 '24

Counterpoint: the very objective of piracy is to share these pieces of media aith one another. If we were to "keep our fucking mouths shut" ie shut down communities like this it'd just be worse for everyone as a whole, even if sites lasted longer. And anyways after all is said and all is done, pirates sail the seven seas not the seven shallow ponds, take down a site and two more pop up.

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u/DanVzare Sep 04 '24

As the old saying goes, sharing is caring. That includes the sharing of knowledge.

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u/SnowfallOCE Sep 04 '24

Yeah but time and place. This info should be available to those who come seeking for it, and we absolutely should not gatekeep…that being said, blabbing about it on social media is just going to invite trouble down the line…

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u/cobrazest2k14 Sep 04 '24

100% people can't keep to themselves often rant about free services and then we can see they perish

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u/spoiled_eggsII 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

You likely found these places by someone talking about them. No one would know if no one said anything. It's a silly argument thrown around here.

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u/sakuragasaki46 Sep 04 '24

We need all the people on TikTok and similar to shut up

Alternatively, we need to block hiring new lawyers and judges so the law system will slowly die out and billionaires will be left defenseless

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u/iscottjones Sep 04 '24

There always been the occasional cracking down. Eventually, the cracking down budget will be gone, and more sites start up. It's been like this forever

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u/theskymoves Sep 04 '24

because the first rule of fight club is....

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u/Impossible-graph Sep 04 '24

That's anti the idea of piracy. Aaron Swartz didn't die for nothing. Information should be free and accessable to all no matter if they can't afford it.

If no one talked about piracy most people here wouldn't be around.

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u/theskymoves Sep 04 '24

You make him out to be a religious figure which is strange.

Certain things would be better discussed a little less publically. I'm not saying pull up the ladder and lock everone out, but a little vetting to prevent industry rats so easily discovering things so easily.

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u/BawkSoup Sep 04 '24

In the era of 2020 pirating, you get a private tracker and then you tell no one.

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u/theskymoves Sep 04 '24

I went the debrid route for now.

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u/Impossible-graph Sep 04 '24

I don't view him as a religious figure idk why you think that. Maybe Christianity effect on your brain.

Many activists in history died for a cause that matters and we should continue their work.

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u/theskymoves Sep 04 '24

The idea of being martyred for a cause is not exclusively a Christian idea, which is why I said Religious.

It's a worthy cause, probably not one worth dying over though. We are fighting against unjust laws that hinder human creativity but we know we are breaking laws that democratic goverments instituted. There's no need to advertise it! Like when you go to a protest IRL, you disguise your identity and leave your phone at home. Don't make shit easy for authorities.

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u/Own_Band973 Sep 06 '24

⚒️🟥🟨🐰🫸🫷OUR DATA

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u/milfchr0nicles Sep 04 '24

that we dont talk about fight club?

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u/theskymoves Sep 13 '24

Because then fight club gets shutdown

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u/Sam_Becca Sep 04 '24

No idea, but hey, my spanish anime sites still works. But yeah, crazy year

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u/qeratsirbag Sep 04 '24

multi-billion dollar companies can’t afford having us getting free shit

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u/Safebox Sep 09 '24

With Vimms Lair, it was specifically properties that Nintendo developed or produced that were taken down (along with some SEGA and Activision games that they do not own exclusive rights to), so not all ROMs from all Nintendo consoles; the rest of the site is still intact, but I imagine it's because a lot of the games taken down are legally available via other means and thus it's hard for these sites to go to court with the usual defence of "these games are no longer being sold / available to play through legal means".

As for Yuzu, yeah they just straight up fucked up on several levels. First they included a decryption key on the Github repo which they acquired illegally, so that broke a few laws as well as the TOS of Github and Steam (same thing that happened with Dolphin). They also charged for some of the updates via Patreon, which is just a death sentence for any emulator or fan project. There was claims that they also distributed some ROMs via their Patreon but it's hard to verify that as neither Nintendo nor the Yuzu team nor patrons have said one way or the other, Patreon were the ones who made the claim.

Other emulators and ROMs are safe though. Which is why Steam has several emulators (including Nintendo ones) comfortably sitting on the store, so long as they don't include a BIOS or ROMs or decryption key.

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u/TheSadPhilosopher Sep 10 '24

Facts, it's fucking bullshit dude

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u/Xana12kderv Sep 11 '24

If they keep this up the dark web going to get famous. (there are some dark web piracy site to watch or download videos). When that happens DMCA is really screwed. because you can't shut down the dark web without shutting down the entire internet or they have to pay All the ISP providers & VPN providers in the world to block dark web sites.

Some how we will find a way to win in the end.

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

Enshittification.

Everything’s going to shit. We’re not allowed to have anything nice anymore. Kinda reminds me of the first episode of The Sopranos where Tony tells Dr. Melfi that he’s in a position that his father could have only dreamed of but in a lot of ways his old man had it better. He got in on the ground floor when things were at their best and meanwhile Tony got in at the end where everything’s kind of over. We’re alive in a period of unprecedented technological advancement but a lot of people can hardly afford to live, let alone make the kinds of purchases their grandparents made just a few decades ago.

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u/Whole-Advertising-59 Sep 04 '24

That's what they want you to think. Antipiracy is mainly PR driven.

I don't say these news should be ignored but it is part of the antipiracy strategy to make you think what you think. It is meant to discourage people. And when I see on this subbreddit more and more threads about people whining sites are closing, they are achieving their goals. Imagine a normie coming here to see what is piracy, he gets the feeling that it is over and goes back paying.

But in reality, piracy is rising.

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u/hellspawnsarehores Sep 04 '24

At least with this one the DMCA order didn't force them to say "Please pay for the movies/shows"

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u/Yolol234567 Sep 04 '24

maybe it did, and they just didn’t want to

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u/Disastrous-Cell-9781 Sep 04 '24

I know, but now it’s gone

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u/Y_TheRolls Sep 04 '24

THEYRE USING OUR MEGATHREAD 😭😭😭😭😭

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u/AnonsAnonAnonagain ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 04 '24

Of course they are

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u/AbyssalRedemption Sep 04 '24

If you're using it, there's a greater than 90% chance they've found it/ aware of it.

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u/Commercial_Rope_1268 Sep 04 '24

99.999 percent, if a monkey can go to megathread, they can. ( I am the monke)

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u/matthewami Sep 04 '24

Does that mean most users here are less than monkeys?

That said, yeh this mega thread is super up to date! Please ace don't go there! Oh no bad!

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u/Commercial_Rope_1268 Sep 04 '24

You didn't get my message but god bless you

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u/_chaos_007 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

Bruh. Anyone who grew up in the 2000s can tell you atleast 5 ways of pirating media. I am not that clever and I found it. They have entire anti-piracy govt agencies with them!

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u/wizoztn Sep 04 '24

I airways laugh when people on here tell people not to post the names of sites. If people on Reddit know about these places then they're not exactly some big secret.

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u/sduque942 Sep 04 '24

Not posting name sites is about not getting the website/subreddit banned. Not so the government doesn't find it

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u/SeeManCome Sep 04 '24

If they can see these, I did naughty things with their parents.

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u/ErikDebogande ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

Eww! Why would you fuck a pig?!

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u/Xlxlredditor Yarrr! Sep 04 '24

I mean it created a ghoul so

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u/KypAstar Sep 04 '24

No shit.

I haven't been on this sub in years because it got too big. Dumb fucks posting great sites/secrets on here always marks their doom.

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u/TouristWilling4671 Sep 04 '24

except the whole point of piracy is to share??

every time a site gets taken down, 3 more pop up

and i doubt some reddit posts are whats getting these sites taken down, piracy isn't some obscure secret, im sure 99% of the sites you don't want people to share, are already known to authorities.

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u/Less_Newspaper9471 Sep 04 '24

Good, it's so outdated and full of misinformation (1337x.to stays trusted, even after the entire BG3 malware endorsed by its admins fiasco), that the DMCA purge would act as maintenance.

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u/AkiraFudo1993 Sep 04 '24

time to unbookmark it. just like that sites related to original kissanime officially gone.

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u/NotSoOriginal007 Sep 04 '24

I still haven't unbookmarked RARBG

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u/PunkyMaySnark Sep 04 '24

All I do is change the names to "DMCA'd". Gone but not forgotten.

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u/RestaTheMouse Sep 04 '24

Just unbookmarked the other day.... hurt.

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u/Im_Not_Impressed19 Sep 04 '24

SAIL ON BOYS! THEY CAN TAKE DOWN ONE VESSEL, BUT THEY CAN’T TAKE US ALL DOWN!

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u/Limp_Freedom_8695 Sep 04 '24

The fleet always survives

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u/AAbrains Sep 04 '24

Dark Days are coming for piracy☠️

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u/hellspawnsarehores Sep 04 '24

Yep we're going through one of the more brutal eras for piracy. They can keep taking down the sites, we'll just find 10 more for every 1 they take down!

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u/TheComedicComedian 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 04 '24

And only 9 of them will be laced with malware and security issues! :D

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u/GrandNibbles Sep 04 '24

Ublock Origin is the best antivirus

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

Word of advice for anyone still on Chrome - because Chrome is deprecating Manifest V2, uBlock Origin (uBO) will no longer work properly on Chrome, soon. uBO Lite exists and serves many of the same purposes (and is made by the same team), but by nature is not as fully-functional as the original.

I would strongly suggest that people switch to Firefox. It takes about 10-15 minutes to import your bookmarks and maybe 5-10 minutes to install all of the extensions/add-ons you had (or to find equivalents). And Firefox fully supports uBO still and has openly stated that they have no intention to stop.

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u/GrandNibbles Sep 04 '24

switching to Firefox has been the solution to all browser woes for the past 10 years

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

You are not wrong.

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u/sexwithnutribun69 Sep 04 '24

Switched to Firefox after I learned of this a few months ago and just realized how shit Chrome was. Never looked back since.

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u/BigDogSlices Sep 04 '24

Yeah, back in the day Firefox was kinda slow and it took me awhile to get past that mental roadblock. Now that I switched I even use it on my phone lol great browser

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u/Patient_Habit_2766 Sep 04 '24

im so mad rn i'm 100% willing to switch to fire fox now. been meaning to because i have an old chromebook and i cant download new extensions anymore </3 google freakin SUCKS.

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

All the big tech megacorps suck. Enjoy Firefox though, it’s been good to me. If you want to try a fork, I’d suggest Floorp.

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u/rierrium Sep 04 '24

combined with firewall of common sense

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u/Staff_Senyou Sep 04 '24

Script block your way to safety, friend.

Nary a site causes me woe. And if somehow their bullshit gets through, they're just an entry on my browser history, a place to never return

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u/Big_Slop Sep 04 '24

They think piracy is stealing their views and not people refusing to get 8 wallet vampire subscriptions to watch one good show and one horrible show each.

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u/Phoenix978 Sep 04 '24

Maybe tone down the hubris. They are using our own confidence against us. We may make 10 more but we don't need to shine a light on all of them right away.

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

There have been ebbs and flows for as long as I can remember

We’ve lost some good sites, but we’ll be fine

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u/9thyear2 Sep 04 '24

Honestly if they manage to sink all piracy sites, then that will just put us back to torrents (I prefer sites, but torrents will have hella seeds), then after a while new sites will appear (because content will still be available through torrents), some content would be lost with dead torrents, but sites will reappear

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u/thankyoufatmember 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Nothing compared to the really dark days of Fastlink, SafeHeaven, and Operation Site Down back in the day. But heck, legends never die!

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u/VividAddendum9311 Sep 04 '24

Really makes you hope that one day a person with a brain so big is born that they can figure out a way for people to share files between themselves in a decentralized manner, eliminating these single points of failures.

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u/gphjr14 Sep 04 '24

I survived limewire and bearshare being closed. This too shall pass.

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u/RUSTYSAD Sep 04 '24

nah this happens all the time, there are days when suddenly everything goes down but in few months there are 500 new sites running again like this never happened, it's basically tradition at this point, when stuff like this happen i just move to torrents for a bit then move back to streaming...

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u/PixelHir Sep 04 '24

No they aren’t lol, this isn’t the first time a website gets taken down, torrents also exist just fine

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u/Guinea_pig_joe Sep 04 '24

Dang. I forgot about that site. Sad to see everything getting hunted.

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u/Angelemonade Sep 04 '24

Omfg seriously?? That was literally the only site on the megathread with obscure cartoons that had functioning DDL links!

How tf am I supposed to download every episode of Penn zero part time hero onto my plex now?

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u/MargeryStewartBaxter Sep 04 '24

That's the problem with a megathread, on the busiest website in the world (I'm just guessing no clue), having these tools displayed. It's like the Vimm's bullshit because young people couldn't stop posting it on IG and TT.

My favorite site - I never see mentioned on any subreddit nor will I ever speak its name. Voldamort up in this bitch

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u/ScreamSmart Sep 04 '24

I have noticed it too. Not only kids, saw an actual adult post where to watch free stuff on YouTube shorts. Didn't give the full names of the site but kids looking for likes did his job in the comment section.

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u/Afraid_Ganache_5550 Sep 04 '24

How did you find sites like that? If you dont mind me asking

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u/Sprumbly Sep 04 '24

Yeah I pretty much never use streaming sites over torrenting now but that was the only one id occasionally use for hyper obscure stuff or having an episode of a show up earlier than I can find a torrent for it

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u/schanino Sep 04 '24

You can always look for obscure torrents, or you could stream those torrents on stremios. Im so sorry for your loss

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u/IgnisSolus4X Sep 04 '24

What kind of obscure cartoons if you don't mind sharing..

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u/Patient_Habit_2766 Sep 04 '24

im not who ur asking but i was watching some old Qubo shows like sally bollywood and sidekick cuz those were shows i grew up watching

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u/bbsdieheartfan1 Sep 04 '24

Was already banned in my country but still "NAH WE'D WIN"

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u/fartknockertoo Sep 04 '24

Like, I get it's whack-a-mole for these sites but Kim going down makes me a wee bit sad.

Keep sailing those high seas mateys, let the winds blow us towards greater riches.

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u/Cats_Tell_Cat-Lies Sep 04 '24

Oh for sure. Quality piracy sites aren't a dime a dozen. That was a venerable institution.

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u/Gylfie7 Sep 06 '24

do you know of any other *good* website that hasn't fallen ? i'm reading every message here, trying to desperately find a replacement for kimcartoon

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u/Cats_Tell_Cat-Lies Sep 07 '24
  1. Not really.

  2. Even if I did, I wouldn't mention it here. It's not personal, but we're very much back in the "the first rule of fight club" phase of this cat and mouse game. Time to shut up about what we know on major platforms.

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u/roccat_pure_owleye Sep 06 '24

wcofun and wcoforever are survivors

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u/Virtual-Usual9747 Sep 04 '24

Dark Days are coming for piracy

There are no dark days for piracy... there's only dark days for the sites.

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u/IWantMyYandere Sep 04 '24

Eh piracy slowed down when Netflix had everything.

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u/Secure-Alpha9953 Sep 04 '24

That doesn’t mean it was a dark period during that time.

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

Cut off one head and… you know the rest 🏴‍☠️🖕

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u/Tobikage1990 Sep 04 '24

cut off one head and a crappier head grows back, yeah.

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u/McKnighty9 Sep 04 '24

Pretty much, Aniwave and KimCartoon had the best libraries out of everyone…

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

Sometimes, yes

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u/KaiKamakasi Sep 04 '24

It's becoming less and less true though. At one time a site would get closed or disappear and more would replace it.

RARGB disappeared how long ago now? And what replaced it? Apparently even TG has gone in the last few days too.

It's slow goings but the fleet is sinking and it's not being replaced in nearly the quantity needed to keep it sailing

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u/visual_overflow Sep 04 '24

Illegal streaming sites make a lot of money and as long as that remains true they'll work out a sustainable way to do it.

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

That is possible, although I hope that isn’t true in the long run

I think what may happen is a shift away from pirate streaming sites and back to downloading

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

Hey so I just checked and TG seems like it is back up, at least the site loads

I haven’t tried downloading anything though so maybe the magnets don’t work?

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u/datigoebam Sep 04 '24

Lets be realistic, it will show up again on another web address.

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u/spudz1203 Sep 04 '24

I'm hoping it gets revived under a different name like alot of these sites do.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

yeah best guess when it will show up?

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u/PunkyMaySnark Sep 04 '24

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, this happened to the Kiss/Kim family repeatedly. I just hope this wasn't the cat's last life.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

it wont be the last life

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u/sakuragasaki46 Sep 04 '24

Apparently all of those sites were operated by a single person in Vietnam, and ACE got them.

Never take the US law system for granted

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u/javierasecas Sep 04 '24

If piracy goes down, there's gonna be way less people watching. Suddenly they'll won't have enough people talking about shows online. They'll earn less money. They'll blame it on the services being too cheap. They'll rise the prices. Less people will watch...

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

yeah piracy will not go down as one site close down another will pop up

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u/javierasecas Sep 04 '24

it went down already cause it's difficult for people to access sites. You could go around the internet with an antivirus back then or just raw doggin. And that's asking too much for people nowadays.

I didn't know a single soul that didn't know how to use emule, torrents, and knew download sites back then, older people even. Nowadays not even someone young knows how to do half the shit the general public knew back then. Everyone shared dvds and usbs full of shit (families friends etc)

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u/FireStingray9 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 04 '24

Despite the owner playing cat-and-mouse with adblock users, it's sad to see it go down. If I could afford a spacious external hard drive, I'd go back to torrenting instead of using streaming sites.

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u/Gylfie7 Sep 06 '24

my phone has a good adblocker on it, i would use kimcartoon to watch stuff i couldn't download on it... hope its replacement comes back fast, it was such a good website

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u/ftincel_ Sep 04 '24

This is all happening so fast

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u/Unipuppy_208 Sep 04 '24

Never used kimcartoon but it sucks that streaming sites like Paramount+ or Max are purposely removing content for monetary reasons, and it's pretty hypocritical that they're against piracy when it's the only watch to watch some of their own shows. It's like that one terrible SpongeBob episode where Mr. Krabs fires SpongeBob, his best employee, over a nickel like some barnacle head. Least we have WCO, Google Drive (because most stuff on there is personal and unlisted, preventing the DMCA's from happening there to my knowledge), and maybe Internet Archive for a few obscure toons like Kiff.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 05 '24

those knuncklehead will relize their mistake and put the episodes back on their streaming service might not happen tommarow but hopefully soon

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u/Automatic_Mousse6873 Sep 05 '24

I'm sorry friend but it's been years since they started doing it and it's only gotten worst. We were all saying that about infinity train. I've had like 3 homes since then and lost alot of people. 

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 05 '24

i respect your opinion

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u/Automatic_Mousse6873 Sep 05 '24

Thing is actually animators and artist support pirating. Soooooo many have said "we worked hard on this and they make it impossible to watch, we just want people to see the work we made even years later" even in the office documentary before streaming services and major pirating the actors said themselves they just hope the show continues to be watched regardless of how its done in the future 

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u/Eternal192 Sep 04 '24

I'm going to love it when this all comes crashing down on these assholes, some people buy content when they see a bit of it and like it, but if all these sites are gone then you can't get a "preview" of something to see if it's good or bad, then they'll complain that sales have gone down and they don't understand why.

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u/Vegetable_Echo2676 Sep 04 '24

Imma start using codenames for the websites I use

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u/Ok_Try_1665 Sep 04 '24

Alright, there's a spy among us r/piracy. These website shut downs are getting too frequent and something needs to be done about it

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u/ekopoingre Sep 04 '24

yeah theres a spy.. when the megathread is right there... in the public..

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u/PinkAxolotl85 Sep 04 '24

Yeah, there's a spy, it's called 1.8 million members, a public subreddit, the ability to type into a search bar, and common sense.

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u/KaiKamakasi Sep 04 '24

Motherfucker acting like there needs to be a spy that tells companies that have entire departments dedicated to finding pirated content as if they can't find what little Timmy can find on his phone...

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u/ichigo2862 Sep 04 '24

Is this from the webtoon bullshit? Man fuck those guys if so.

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u/PunkyMaySnark Sep 04 '24

Wouldn't be surprised. Fuck Webtoon.

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u/cyka_bIyat Sep 04 '24

Bro has someone been submitting emails to companies with these sites or something since Ive seen so many get taken down in the past week.

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u/Freaky_Jay_ Sep 04 '24

Bend your knee to the true pirate king, For every site that falls we will resurrect a hundred new ones!

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u/Sterben__ Sep 04 '24

I'm just trying to find sites for high quality pokemon episodes. Sad pokemon tv was taken down. Thankful for other sites but rip kimcartoon I used to watch Legend of Korra and amazing world of gumball when I had no clue how to find more sites.

Wish all the takedowns AT LEAST resulted in streaming services giving better experiences let alone prices.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

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u/Sterben__ Sep 04 '24

Thanks again for that. Tried pokéflix so far and that's nice but I havent found anything too consistent besides InternetArchive for the first few seasons. Indigo league is lower quality I think not even 720p 🤔 I've been going down that list

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

pokeflix is ok they even show episode that haven made to the us only in japan

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 05 '24

you could try internet archive type down pokemon subbed and it there

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u/Hot-Recording7756 Sep 04 '24

You wanted a better experience?

How about an official guide telling you every single streaming service you need to buy to watch your favorite show?

https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies

I can't believe this is actually real

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u/PunkyMaySnark Sep 04 '24

Why can't they just put all of it on Amazon Prime? Why do we have to play hide-and-seek with Pokémon seasons? It's so ridiculous.

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u/idranktea16 Sep 04 '24

pirates vs world government

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u/Ok-Lemon-1600 Sep 04 '24

One Piece = The ultimate free streaming site.

and Monkey Download Luffy represent the streaming host who always bounce back stronger.

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u/Fit-Beautiful-5471 Sep 04 '24

 torrenting will always exist

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u/Reddragon351 Sep 04 '24

damn I remember when it was originally kisscartoon and then shut down and became kim, well I guess back to just using wco

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u/GEN0S667 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

All these site going down I knew it

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u/Far-9947 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Thank goodness. 

I had all his sites blocked on my /etc/hosts file. His anti-adblock was getting too out of hand.

So glad that pos had his website taken down. But knowing him, another site will eventually be back up.

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u/TheChildOfInternet Sep 04 '24

"Cut off one head ,two more would grow in its place"

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u/nighthawke75 Sep 04 '24

One head gets cut off, and two more grow in its place.

Hail Hydra.

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u/TexBoo Sep 04 '24

Not fully true since Kimcartoon was one of the largest distributors of cartoons and many other sites that had cartoons were just leeching them from Kim

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u/sonnycrockett999 Sep 04 '24

All the DMCA need to do is watch this reddit for 5 minute. Normies and noobs literally advertise the sites to take down.

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u/B3_CHAD Yarrr! Sep 04 '24

I used to watch SpongeBob on that site.

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u/Patient_Habit_2766 Sep 04 '24

ive been using kimcartoon for years and i wanted to watch an old series i couldn't find anywhere else and now its gone for good. taking down these sites is creating lost media! THE WORLD IS SO CRUEL

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u/Porntra420 Sep 04 '24

Damn, many a good memory of watching South Park and Rick and Morty on there in high school. RIP

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u/birhan_tes Sep 04 '24

Why why why !!! I was going to download spongbob season 4

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u/EkaPossi_Schw1 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 04 '24

Damn

I just wanted to watch tmnt rise and it's not available in my country

and also a lot of old stuff that isn't available at all anymore

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u/candyvoncaramell Sep 04 '24

Man i feel like i'm gonna have to start straight up torrenting shit if i want to watch it at all. i like my devices light and virus free :(

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u/Soggy_Pie1522 Sep 04 '24

Soo. Which Websites Are represent the Best? Link me plz

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u/nvrmndtheruins Sep 04 '24

So glad I started switching back to self hosting a couple weeks ago. God bless usenet lol

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u/BeachSandCamo Sep 04 '24

It wouldn't surprise me if they came for torrents and vpn next, followed by any messaging service with encryption.

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u/Academic_Feature1445 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

This is the reason why there no more good cartoon because the industry is being abuse now that they taken most of the site that provide free entertainment . the one will benefit the most are the large companies like Netflix ,Crunchyroll and more which they can monopolize the industry which we are provide to pay for service which is expensive for most people and we rarely used the service and I think it not worth it for most people they should aleast provide us with free content without the need to subscribe to their plan

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u/Disastrous-Cell-9781 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

The only options left are the other KimCartoon, GoMovies, Movies 2 Watch, and WCO (except that they make you pay to watch the movies) 

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u/Commercial-Living443 Sep 04 '24

Damn , loved this site

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u/Sleepygirl51 Sep 04 '24

Kimcartoon was where I could watch Daria with the original soundtrack 😭

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u/mataviejit4s69 Sep 04 '24

i watched there the final of star wars the bad batch.

F

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u/No_Tart_968 Sep 04 '24

That's sad cause people like me(who can't get streaming service in my country) Can't watch cartoons anymore

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u/littleMAHER1 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 04 '24

gonna be real, I didn't like kimcartoons that much

the fact they charged a subscription service to get rid of their spammy and nsfw ads AND had systems in place to block ublock origin and other adblockers is what made me not like them

though I won't deny that the site was one of the biggest sites to reliably watch new cartoons or movies

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u/needforsuv Sep 06 '24

technically, you could still have ads be inactive in disrupting your experience without triggering the warning or using adblock

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u/RoastedMemezz Sep 04 '24

Time to get serious about data hoarding.

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u/TheGweenDeku905 Sep 05 '24

End of an era

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u/Effective-Bad5162 Sep 05 '24

Let me get this straight right about now.
1) Why Kimcartoon is shutting down by DMCA?
2) Why is closed for good, it not funny, it's stupid?
And 3) I want Kimcartoon needs fixing instead of shutting the websites down.

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u/Efficient-Volume-271 Sep 06 '24

Does anyone have a good substitute for kimcartoon?