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Originally Posted by bigsocce
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It's bad news for the rest of the anime industry. It would complicate getting the licenses for dvd releases at the very least, and many companies would probably want control over online distribution in the US too. As for crunchyroll itself, if they're losing money on every stream, it's bad news for them because they'd just be losing more money, and if they're actually turning a profit, it might be good news for them or it might push them over a cliff from expanding too fast. Look at what happened to ADV when they went on their "license everything we can get our hands on" kick. Crunchyroll doesn't publish dvds though, and they won't have the damage from that musicland fiasco ADV had, so it's not a completely accurate analogy.