Phantom 10 Leaked, Funimation Slow to Respond

Humberto Saabedra

Following the One Piece debacle over the weekend, Funimation has continued to stumble over itself when it was discovered that the yet to be aired 10th episode of the currently airing Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom was leaked from the same public server yesterday.

To its credit, the distributor has somewhat improved security, as FLV downloaders such as DownloadHelper and others have been disabled from stream access, but until Funimation ceases the upload of episodes to public servers (the crux of the issue), the incidents will continue unabated.

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