Seems like a good time to remind people Anime News Network once tried to get into the streaming anime business like Crunchyroll but they royally fucked up and because of their shitty website design leaked episodes of Oreimo before the Japanese air dates and got such shit for it by the Japanese company. The kicker was it was their FIRST SIMULCAST. They fucked up right out the gate. They didn't last very long in the streaming game, obviously.
Here's the article where Christopher MacDonald had to publicly apologize because he's an incompetent webmaster.
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Also a weird fucking format where your own site interviews you. "A follow up question from ANN asks..." you mean yourself? God.
For the record, the security exploit they talked about was someone changed the url from like oreimo_episode1.html to oreimo_episode2.html and found the next episode was already uploaded and ready to go. Literally.
Also I was just reminded of this existed, so now you guys have to experience it to. Behold their fanart contest from around the same time.
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EDIT: Hold on, they still have a video page. It's not linked on their main page, but a Google search engine still links to it.
www.animenewsnetwork.com
Can anyone get these videos to play? It asks me to install Flash and is acting exceptional like you'd expect a video player coded by a sloth to be.
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They don't still have all these old shows on their servers do they? They didn't just... delete the link to their video stream from the main page but keep all this stuff on the backend? No. I refuse to believe they're that dumb. They must still have the right to stream these shows or they're not actually there... right? This would be a huge fucking legal issue if they still were offering access to all these shows.