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Over time, AnimeSuki experienced a decline in new fansub entries, due to various changes in online anime distribution, such as preference to download episodes directly from translators' websites, competition with other database websites, frequent updates, and disbandment of translation groups. Fan
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The site only linked to anime that had not been licensed by any
American companies. Once a title was licensed, the corresponding fansub links were removed from the site and the series was listed on its licensed list. Nonetheless, although none of the files were hosted on the site itself, AnimeSuki
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translations have further declined, as more anime became licensed and professionally translated for official release worldwide. And since the growing popularity of video streaming websites such as
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or series that had been licensed in North
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could be held accountable for violating copyright law, as linking to sites that themselves infringe on the law has been considered a form of
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were not initially licensed, AnimeSuki kept them from being listed because of the likelihood that Geneon would secure the rights to it.
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have also sent them separate cease and desist letters concerning several titles, which were promptly removed. In
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