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You can get them legally on eBay. Kaaza and it's ilk are file sharing services where you can get pirated music or videos for free. I only use Bearshare when I can't find what I need legally, or want digital versions of the songs I own on records or cassettes (although that use may be marginally legal). 
  
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I thought modern pirates all used BitTorrent.
I watched Inuyasha when I had the cartoon network, on between Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.
I can still hum that closing music... Doo da dee da daa...
   
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Thye concept behind BitTorrent is that while you're downloading a file, you're simultaneously uploading it to the other people who are downloading it. That way, you can put a single 'torrent' file on the internet and have lots of people downloading it at once without any slowdown (as long as they've all downloaded the BitTorrent client). There's nothing inherently illegal about this idea - I think all large internet downloads should be done this way. But in practice, it's mainly used for downloading pirated software, TV shows, movies, anime, etc.
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by Veteran Gerakken - 4/5/2004 1:58:07 PM
| I guess that they're legal because of the subtitles? Anyway, I'll take a look at Shareaza. Thanks. |
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Ah, this is one area I know about. Revelation time: I was once in Odyssey, a well known fansub group from roughly 1999 to 2002. You can still find plenty of Odyssey tapes floating around on the net, so the group may be gone, but not forgotten completely. Anyway, technically all fansubs are illegal under international law, but in the old days the Japanese companies were not willing to prosecute fansubbers who were in foreign countries. It was too costly and produced little return. It was the American companies who were more likely to be hurt when they bought the rights to a show.
The irony is that these American anime companies were relying on the fansubber to build a demand for a show so they could buy the rights from the Japanese and produce a viable North American product later. So kind of an informal deal was struck with the fansubbers of old. If an American company started releasing a product, the fansubs of it would stop. At least that is what the honorable fansubbers did. Odyssey was one of the few groups that went further and stopped projects the minute it was bought by an American company. It cost us several projects, but we got respect both from the companies and fans because of it.
Now what the distros (the distributors of fansub tapes) did was something entirely different. They were a whole other ball game. Back then, the subbers produced just a few tapes at a time and the emphasis was on hitting the distributors who made hundreds or thousands of copies of those tapes and not on the subbers themselves. Even if the subber stopped, there were more than enough distros willing to make more tapes. Now the digisubber can flood the net literally overnight with on demand product. Nowadays and are a bigger threat. They can put video directly on the net and that really worries the companies. I should point out that it was not only distros that were out madly making tapes. Some fansubbers themselves were more than willing to break the "rules" and run for profitable bootlegging. But it was not the Wild West. There was some honor in the business, even if it was based upon illegality.
A lot has changed in the fansub world since I was editing tapes: the technology, the speed of getting raw shows and subbing them, the ettiquete of fansubs, everything has changed it seemed. Well, enough remeniscing on the old days. I can only tell you how it used to work, not how it works now.
    
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I'm the dummy in my group of friends that buys them all. 
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| an X-rated manga of Inuyasha and Kagome! |
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Try Kazaa or Shareaza. Thats where I got them. 
) Most of the anime I watch are fansubs. I used to buy them but @ $25-$30 a disc that only contained 3 episodes... and that got expensive. I am currently watching Kenshin (at episode #67 now) and they are the professionaly done and are the US DVD release. I borrowed them from my girlfriend's brother. Couldn't imagine spending $30 a disc for a series that goes into the 100's with episodes (like Inu Yasha). Luckily he already did and I can mooch. 
