You can tell people to "just teach kids how to torrent" or suggest piracy, but anime being easily accessible is a HUGE deal. Remember how pumped folks were when Girls Band Cry was available to stream on Hoopla?
All this does is isolate anime fans not just from the shows they love, but from libraries and their other programs, which have been shown to massively help our communities. If these folks are located in areas with spotty internet? They'll likely just stop being fans altogether.
So fuck Sony/Crunchyroll for investing in NFT and AI bullshit over libraries!
https://old.reddit.com/r/librarians/comments/1khux4e/crunchyroll_ended_their_library_outreach_program/?ref=share&ref_source=link