<p>Some from torrent sites or are ripping them from the disks or original streaming services.</p>

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2020-07-11T16:34:17.787Z
ohh, so they download from there and display it then? Thanks
toniinot
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2020-07-11T16:24:12.593Z
2020-07-12T00:43:09.497Z
2020-07-12T00:43:09.497Z
Krasimir Iliev Velichkov
<p><em>Legal</em> streaming sites like Crunchyroll, Viz, <a href="https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/2516">and others</a> get their source directly from the original distributor/publisher after <a href="https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11" rel="noreferrer">they get the license/rights to stream the series</a>.</p>
<p>Outside of those sites (which are considered &quot;gray area&quot;), they use any possible sources, from ripping the video from the original streaming services and DVD/BD to downloading from existing sources, which is basically piracy since it's a copyright infringement to distribute works without permission, regardless if <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/19024/2516">they are already licensed or not yet licensed</a>.</p>

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2020-07-11T18:07:39.237Z
2020-07-11T18:07:39.237Z
Aki Tanaka
<p>I was wondering - from where do anime sites find the anime they are streaming? I'd like to know how they get the content and from where.</p>

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From where do anime streaming sites take their videos from?
# From where do anime streaming sites take their videos from?
Posted by: username_0 on 2020-07-11
I was wondering - from where do anime sites find the anime they are streaming? I'd like to know how they get the content and from where.
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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-07-11. Score: -2 | Accepted answer
Some from torrent sites or are ripping them from the disks or original streaming services.
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> **username_0** (2020-07-11): ohh, so they download from there and display it then? Thanks  
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### Answer by username_2 on 2020-07-11. Score: 5
*Legal* streaming sites like Crunchyroll, Viz, [and others](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/2516) get their source directly from the original distributor/publisher after [they get the license/rights to stream the series](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11).

Outside of those sites (which are considered "gray area"), they use any possible sources, from ripping the video from the original streaming services and DVD/BD to downloading from existing sources, which is basically piracy since it's a copyright infringement to distribute works without permission, regardless if [they are already licensed or not yet licensed](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/19024/2516).
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