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Originally Posted by Triple_R
If Crunchyroll wants to tap into that market, then they need to allow unencumbered downloads. So Crunchyroll has plenty to gain, and nothing really to lose, by allowing unencumbered downloads.
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There is already an example of a company having success with unencumbered downloads on the french market.
A couple years ago the company
Wakanim started offering DRM free downloads (and now offer completely free DRM downloads),it was a success and now they have no problem getting companies to give them "a-list" titles (their lineup right now includes AoT and monogatari for example) , especialy aniplex seems to be very willing to work with them.
Got the chance to talk to someone who works for them and he told me that there is actually something to lose for companies like Crunchyroll: credibility with japanese companies , if anything had gone wrong when Wakanim started offering DRM free downloads japanese producers wouldn't have trusted them anymore and would have refused to do business with them, Wakanim was a start up, so decided to take the risk but a company that's already much more established might not risk damaging the relationship they have with japanese companies (not to mention those companies supposedly haven't forgotten that crunchyroll did start as an illegal stream site so the relationship isn't that great in the first place).