Thank God Crunchyroll!!!!

[Reaper gI]

Youtube may have been made for "user-created" content, but since day one it has always been used for uploading copyright material, arguable the majority of the content (at least before camera phones became popular with teenagers anyway). It is only relatively recently that it has started being used as a platform for legitimate streams - and my point is that they continue hosting a shed manufacturer's warehouse-load of illegal content while CR doesn't have any.

And my point was that CR was created and intended for fansubs and illegal streaming. It was specifically made for that. If YouTube was specifically made as an illegal Hulu, it would be the same - but it wasn't. It was created as being a basic video sharing tool, it never specialised in anything, really. It tried to enforce user-generated material (which, I'd argue, used it before much pirate material appeared on it).

It just seems like a weird argument to make, but I'll leave it at that.

CR was made as a youtube clone that offered DDL at a premium and social network features.

Content was all user uploaded, same as Youtube. This was at the point by which youtube was prety much just a pirate site. Which it has been for as long as I can remeber, about 6 years.

 

[Jaymii]

It was not like Veoh or Dailymotion, though, was it? It was focused on Japanese animation and drama.

 

[Reaper gI]

It was not like Veoh or Dailymotion, though, was it? It was focused on Japanese animation and drama.

It was, just started with a largely Asian userbase, that's all.

 

[SuzakuviaBritannia]

it had the write idea but done the wrong way, you still find animes on youtube, funimation and Aniplex have aired anime on their youtube pages for legal streaming but also have deals with Crunchy to keep some up there since Durarara is on both youtube and CR.

It started on anime and now even does the j/k/c dramas