> Piracy may never go away, but Crunchyroll is out to prove that "competing with free" is possible by treating piracy like a business problem. > the site has g

> Piracy may never go away, but Crunchyroll is out to prove that "competing with free" is possible by treating piracy like a business problem. > the site has grown into profitability, trying to take away every advantage that piracy has—including price. I think the above two lines are very telling. It's very interesting and very encouraging to see how they are competing against a business problem like infringing sharing by providing free versions supported by advertisements as well as paid versions without advertising. It's essentially similar to many of the freemium models being used but is being applied to media. I wonder if something like this would work with books?