Funimation Shutdown Fuels Push for DMCA Exemption to Legally Rip Anime Content

> the Office wants more details from stakeholders. It asks which copy protections are involved, whether the titles can be watched legally some other way, and why making these copies wouldn’t infringe copyright. It also wants to know whether allowing this would hurt sales.

lol, look I'm a sony lawyer answering: "cryptography", "there is no way for us to assure you can watch every single episode you'd have on disc, the maintenance burden would be far too much, but our catalogue is already plenty enough and you can enjoy it as much as you want for as cheap as $PRICE/month.". "Such copies would absolutely breach copyright, they wouldn't be protected by our protection solution and could even possibly harm users devices". "Yes we would lose around 10000 bajillion dollars per month of subscription revenue by allowing people to preserve their collection of media we're too lazy to distribute ourselves."