Legal One Piece Streaming Canceled Indefinitely due to leak (update: uncancelled)

Funi operated with caution, perhaps a bit of human error here and there, but nothing excessively lax or overcautious. Then you have one Light Yagami- and one is all it takes- who is thorough enough, lacking a life enough, persistent enough, and just a tad lucky enough to ruin it for everyone else. I can't blame Funi for this one, and I know I can be unforgiving (I actually dismantled my amazon account some months back) but this time I know it's not the company.
 
I assume Shueisha and Toei said "Speed up. Now." to coincide with the FUNimation streaming.

I wonder how many months this has been in planning?
 
I still maintain hope something can be worked out with the streams. Toei has become a lot more reasonable over the past few years, so this doom and gloom talk about Funi losing the licence has to stop. People are coming to conclusions that have no basis in the facts as they stand, and that's leading to needless grief for everyone.

Funi sturabled, but there is a very obvious solution to this problem that does not require drastic action like pulling One Piece from the American market. So until we get a more definative report from Lance or some other Funi representative, let's cool down.
 
"Working diligently" could mean anything, from getting the videos they do have to work, to (trying to) talk the issue over with Toei in the hope that the near-simulcast deal doesn't get axed (IMO, it's more likely the latter); worst case scenario, FUNi may also be trying to ensure that the license doesn't get yanked (I hope it doesn't happen either, but as I and others have pointed out, this is a very serious problem). For this reason, that message doesn't really tell us anything except what what we already know. Funimation has yet to actually comment on the issue.

EDIT: I was at Hulu again, and it's weird. Hulu says that they've been requested to pull episode 391, but not only is it still there, it played just fine.
 
And that is why I posted it in the first place. You can't tell me that most people were freaking out about a "supposed" license strip, that happened everywhere I went on the net. Even if I didn't believe that FUNi could lose it.
 
I am not saying its right or wrong whats happened.But as someone stated just above my post about the uk.

Its happened because its only being streamed in the states and canada.

Thats why theses things leak and get shown elsewhere.


universal worldwide streams is the only way to stop fansubs and things like this happening.Period!!!
 
I didn't think that FUNimation could lose the license over anything like this either since that does sound like an extreme course of action for this situation. Still, it is good to hear from FUNimation that they are talking with Toei and that everything regarding the DVRAB are safe so that people won't jump to the worst case senerio now.
 
I don't expect any more streams. Ever. Not from FUNi anyway. Game over, it's done. A lot easier to pull than to fix holes in security.

******s ruin everything again.
 
It would appear that episode 403's TV airing in Japan ratings weren't reallly affected at all (a 9.3 compared to a 9.8 the week before, though the ratings tend to hover up and down in the 9.0s regardless), so hopefully that should help placate Toei over the leak.
 
The best that can happen is that FUNi will take it slow, and instead of Simucasts they will just do every show like FMA Brotherhood, a few days after Japan so that such a leak is far less damaging to everyone if it does happen again.
 
1 of the reasons its not as popular is that is so far behind. Even the anime is passed whats being shown in VIZ SJ and thats been off the air a year now and had a year break between 4kiRAB and FUNI dub.
 
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