TechCrunch: “Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll”:

San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors.
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We first covered the company in August 2007, and noted that they rely almost exclusively on copyright infringing content.