Hidive is forcing and encouraging Piracy in non English speaking countries.

I was looking forward to watch some ecchi (Chained Soldier S2) and Isekai slop (Hell Mode), but both anime, and others are not available in India, or any non English speaking countries, courtesy to HiDive.

I don't understand that if they are not airing shows in India, Singapore, Indonesia, etc, that's okay, but hogging airing rights and not giving it to Crunchyroll, Netflix, Prime to reduce competition is non sense.

This is not the first time, I remember waiting for 2-3 days for a good subbed version of BokuYaba in the high seas because again it was licensed by HiDive, heck I was going to pay for HiDive to watch my fav show, but they don't accept non US/UK/Canada/etc dit/debit cards, surely not Indian.

I still don't understand why there is not worldwide copyright laws that ends this favouritism towards white majority countries, access to information and media must be universal, and not locked to a region.

Well, whatever, I gave up the high seas as I earn now, and like to pay to consume content, but gotta find Luffy soon. See ya.

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N7CombatWombat2026-01-12 19:56

Welcome to the giant clusterfuck that is anime regional licensing.

Dumey2026-01-12 20:00

Who and how would you have enforce those laws? It sucks if these companies are not providing service for malicious reasons, but at the end of the day, profit motive should be the answer. Is there a financial reason why HiDive avoids places like India? I genuinely am asking, I don't know the answer. It would seem like such a large population would be a good source of revenue, but who knows.

IamShika2026-01-12 21:36

I don't think the problem is Hidive not wanting to do business in India or Indonesia, it's okay, it's their business, but acquiring Worldwide Rights to air anime and then proceeding to block other players from acquiring licenses in non service region is non sensical and tyrannical to me.

Unhappy-Strain-53872026-01-12 20:02

Nobody is *forcing* you to do anything - you're not going to die without a daily dose of anime.

Pirating is a *choice* you make. Maybe it's the only way to watch something, but it's still your choice to make.

Superior_Mirage2026-01-12 20:04

HiDive doesn't serve non-English-speaking countries anymore, period -- they don't own the distribution rights in those countries, so somebody else could quite easily pick up those rights.

If nobody did, then they think there won't be a market for them.

Adrian_Alucard2026-01-12 20:45

HiDive has the habit to acquiring global airing rights, for some reason. That's why most of the anime they license end up not arriving to other countries. There are exceptions, of course, but generally if an anime is on HiDive it won't reach to most of the world

TheBatemanFlex2026-01-12 20:07

> not worldwide copyright laws that ends this favouritism towards white majority countries

Yes I am sure the company is looking at the race demographics of countries to decide how to conduct business.

If someone thought they could make money in that market, they would.

DogbrainedGoat2026-01-12 20:07

The thing that sent me over the edge is Naruto Shippuden English dub is not available anywhere. I was paying for crunchy and prime and Netflix and nowhere could I watch English dub.

Well, their loss.

HairOfTheCat2026-01-12 20:09

TIL every non-English speaking country is also non-white majority, someone had better let the Norwegians know they're not white

Adrian_Alucard2026-01-12 20:47

Germans, Finnish and some more where not white according to Benjamin Franklin, they where "swarthy"

BitchYouAintNoNerd2026-01-12 20:12

So are you complaining that HiDive doesn't serve India? Because as of right now HiDive is not responsible for you not being able to watch Chained Soldier. No service in India has decided to pick up the rights to the show. Whatever makes you feel justified about crying, i guess lol

IamShika2026-01-12 21:27

Hidive mostly buys global rights (apart from Japan), that's what they did with BokuYaba, like Crunchyroll having complete autonomy over Solo Leveling and it not being available in many African countries legally, because CR is not available in the region.

brokenaway12026-01-12 20:12

Someone doesn’t know how licensing works. Hidive is also not hogging the rights from the others tho, the others could also buy the right if they want to. They also dont have the distribution right for those countries. You also prob wouldn’t have paid for them anyways since you already said that you were waiting for sites to rip from them lol

IamShika2026-01-12 21:38

Check BokuYaba, Chained Soldier S2, Hidive bought "WORLDWIDE" airing rights, meaning Crunchyroll or Netflix can only air the anime by setting up a server on moon or mars. Please research about it before commenting.

Internal_gods2026-01-12 20:12

I'm too poor to afford all subscriptions to watch all shit shows, wanna pay? donate your local charities

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