Why can't I have confidence when they say they will try to make access "free"? I don't know why but this smells like something similar to what they do with "free games" on cell phones

Any news like this always hurts as much as being hit by a truck, but the ones about anime sites being taken down are the ones that make me the saddest. I will always hate the monopoly that Crunchyroll has established and I'm afraid that one day it will "win" and that all the other sites will end up having the same fate. Why is piracy involving anime is the one that suffers the most?

Kind of an obvious question but... do we have substitutes for it?

Because they will always have people who support them, regardless of how mean they are, as long as there are people afraid of "pirating" this will never change.

I feel this way about Anime/Manga piracy, even if it doesn't disappear, Japan and the DMCA will do everything they can to weaken it even more over the years, and the fall of 9anime only makes this nightmare more real every day.