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Zone-Anime
http://www.anime-sensei.net/
http://www.da-anime.org/
Etc.

Bittorrent:
http://www.tokyotosho.com/
http://a.scarywater.net/

Just some nice Anime sites.

Sorry I am not impressed :) .

Since we're apparently talking about an American company,

Since you apparently invent alleged context out of thin air, it's painful for me to continue talking with you.

By that logic, since any asshole can go buy a Porsche Boxster (or, God forbid, a Cayenne), then all Porsches must be available?

Um no, neither that sentence, nor the rest of your post, has any approximate resembelance to logic or rationality. Most importantly, you seem oblivious of the fact that non-absolute positions (which acknowledge grey areas, like mine) are inherently stronger than absolutist ones.

However, I am very curious about one thing:
Once you develop an interest in the stuff that isn't US distro, you get to run over to Japan and buy some DVDs at $40/ea + $20s/h

What might some of those titles be? And no ancient stuff, please- give me names from this decade.

Looking at the program listings for the USA's Cartoon Network, I see several anime upcoming: Cowboy Bebob, Inu Yasha, Lost Exile, Wolf's Rain, Ghost In The Shell (I presume that anything they broadcast will also have DVD sales shortly).

And, a quick trip to a bittorrent site tells me that each of those is still accessible as fansubs. (And also that fansubs are distributed intermingled with DVD-rips of commercially-subtitled USA releases). Can you dispute that evidence? Because it's really all I need to show harm.

For the last time: the existence of occasional non-harmful fansubbers doesn't negate all the others.

It's so easy to get fansubs these days with BitTorrent, the fansubbing scene is really nothing like it was only a few years ago.

When a popular series like Naruto has a new release, within a week there will be 100,000-200,000 downloads just from the group that is first to release it (Dattebayo). Add the other popular groups in like Anbu and you're looking at 200,000-300,000 downloads a week. Clearly the demand and distribution capacity is huge, a double feature episode will move over 80 terabyte of data easily in a little more over a week. I can understand the companies starting to get nervous.

Another large problem is that when a series does get licensed, whereas previously this was seen as a good thing today it will be met with extreme hostility from the users who are used to getting their anime fix for free. I pity the company that dares license Naruto before it's completed its run in Japan.

I see only one solution. The companies theselves must provide a service to rival the fansubbers. The animation houses themselves could microcharge for the episodes online. With simultaneous TV/net releases I do see a large portion of the current fansub base supporting such an effort. It could pave the way for other TV series moving towards online distribution, in my opinion it's only a matter of time and who will do it first.

There are such sites:

Filerush.com: The purpose of this site is to serve Bit Torrent files for recently released game demos, updates, and movie trailers of games.

and

BitTorrent Files for Slashdot Effect Victims.

and

Run But Cant Hide: Legal, Free BitTorrent Downloads

Between these three you can usually find most legal files that are in high demand.

Good luck and long live the bt!

-Fred

Get the torrent here , subtitled, courtesy of AnimeOne.

In "Shadows," the technology of the ancient and extinct Shadow race is being unleashed upon the galaxy by an unknown force, and Earthforce intelligence officer Diane Baker, whose brother was recently killed in a mysterious explosion, it out to find out who is behind the intergalactic conspiracy.

Joining her is Galen, a techno-mage who has been charged with keeping the technology out of the hands of those who would abuse it.

Did they rip the plot off from some anime? Come on! I bet you people could name 10 animes with a disturbingly similar plot, featuring a cute female heroine and techno-mages.

This sounds like it's going to be live action though, so maybe it'll end up like Cutie Honey and Cutie Honey.

In "Shadows," the technology of the ancient and extinct Shadow race is being unleashed upon the galaxy by an unknown force, and Earthforce intelligence officer Diane Baker, whose brother was recently killed in a mysterious explosion, it out to find out who is behind the intergalactic conspiracy.

Joining her is Galen, a techno-mage who has been charged with keeping the technology out of the hands of those who would abuse it.

Did they rip the plot off from some anime? Come on! I bet you people could name 10 animes with a disturbingly similar plot, featuring a cute female heroine and techno-mages.

This sounds like it's going to be live action though, so maybe it'll end up like Cutie Honey and Cutie Honey.

From what I've seen, I'd say it's about 99.9% infringing content, and 0.1% non-infringing, whether you go by instance or byte-count. Even when you factor in the other "legit" BitTorrent sites, like scarywater's anime, the overall ratio probably won't change much.

The amount of GPL'd and other open content is increasing, though. Slowly.

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Tv shows are small enough to download in a reasonable time. As well they don't have surround sound tracks to worry about.

TV shows often have surround sound nowadays. Just so you know, AAC audio was designed with 7 channel audio in mind. Any truly MPEG-4 compliant file would be able to retain full surround sound. MPEG-4 will be one of a few codecs in the next generation DVD format and AAC audio is currently used for the national Japanese digital audio standard.

No one has time to watch all their favorite shows whenever they want, and many people would rather fork over 10 bucks a month to downoa their favorite shows than fork over a few hundred upfront for a PVR.

Hm. Yes. Pricing is subject to debate. I doubt you'll be able to charge just $1 for a 24 minute TV episode at 200 mb when they're already charging $1 for a 2 minute song at 4 mb and no video stream and the RIAA is asking for more!

By selling the content directly to the customer they bypass the need for ads altogether

Oh ho.. I don't think Ray Romano makes over $1 million per episode based on cable subscriptions. Advertisements bring in lots of money. Lots of money. More money than you can possibly get by selling directly. How much money do you think a car advert is worth to Dahlmer-Chrysler during an episode of Friends versus the value all the viewers of Friends places on getting that one episode? It is certainly disproportional.

Selling directly to the customer dilutes your advertising numbers which will hurt advertising revenue more than it will help direct sales revenue.

Networks would no longer need to waste budget on crap like "Neilson" ratings that are subjective at best - they would have an exact metric of what shows are popular so they can devote more time / money to them

Now you're just talking looney here. So the number of people that download a show off the internet is an accurate metric? Considering probably less than 10% would use this method I would say you're 100% wrong. The data would be skewed. You might think Star Trek was the most popular show on Earth and nobody watched Friends when the truth of the matter may be more people watch Friends than have watched Star Trek in its entire history just because of different demographic samples.

It would mean less shows would need to be cancelled - if a show did not have a s wide an audience, but the existing audience was very loyal (say, Farscape), you could just charge more money for the show and still make a profit.

Sorry, I have to laugh at this one. The Japanese have tried a distribution system like this for years for anime usually called Original Video Animation (OVA). The show would be completely funded by fans where sales of the previous episode would pay for the production of the next. Typically each episode costs the consumer anywhere from 4800 to 9600 yen. That's about $50 to $100 for a 24 to 45 minute episode. Needless to say after the Japanese economy crashed the OVA died away and the number of releases has dwindled to nearly nothing. Not to mention most shows could only maintain this for a handful of episodes often as few as 3, 6 or less though a notable few are longer.

Can this work? Yes, it's been done before: Legend of Galactic Heroes was over 150 episdoes direct to video. Will it work for more than maybe one show over the next 20 years? Probably not: Legend of Galactic Heroes will run you about $1800 USD on DVD today (maybe more on laserdisc) and is the only show to even approach that length in the history of Japanese animation (IMHO a deserving distinction).

Overall, I think this could be interesting for some markets. For example, the anime "Naruto" typically has over 80,000 to 90,000 downloads per each fan translated episode. That is quite a lot considering there are over 85 episodes and enough material to stretch into the hundreds (think Dragon Ball Z). I could imagine a si

Like this one?

Maybe someone should put it up for bittorrent at BitTorrent Files for Slashdot Effect Victims

All the viewers of PlanetES know how burdensome and dangerous objects floating in space can be.

What do you think will happen if a spacecraft were to collide with a cadaver floating in space? How much time and effort, not to mention millions of dollars, would that waste? The best part of it all is that each collision has the potential to create even more debris.

For those who haven't seen PlanetES yet, here is the URI for the torrents : Anime Empire

This reminds me of an anime I've been watching recently. Normally I'm not too big on anime, but my brother was nagging me to check out this new show called 'Planetes' that's currently being fansubbed, so I did, and was pleasantly surprised. It's set in the near future and revolves around a crew of debris collectors who live and work in orbit around Earth. The idea being that in the future, space industry and space resources are so important, and the spaceships needed so prevalent that any small ammount of debris has a very high probability of strking into one of the many vessels in orbit around Earth and cause immense damage. Episode #3 centers around a space casket sent off ~50 years ago that couldn't escape Earth's gravity and had returned.

If you're interested, ed2k links here (if you sing up for an account), bittorrent links here (no signup, probably faster). I'd recommend these guys as far as fansubs go.

My favorite part about sci-fi is when characters are presented in a semi-fantastic/futuristic world where it's just taken for granted that their universe is as such, without making a big deal about it. The focal point has thus far been on the characters, while the world they live in has been mostly taken for granted, so the character development has been quite nice. In addition to that, I like how the series has thus far avoided all of the horrible anime cliches I've become so desensitized to.

BitTorrent Files for Slashdot Effect Victims

I would be nice if Slashdot had it's own P2P program available for all to share the goodies.

Well, there is f.scarywater.net, but they seem to be kind of dead right now.

(amazingly, the RH9 torrent still has seeds!)

Yeah, your average .torrent file is about 15K (according to my OLDTORRENTS dir), so that's a lot of segments, a lot of bandwidth, and a lot more memory required to cache thousands upon thousands of torrents.

DNS administrators will simply stop caching TXT records

It's more likely they'd patch their DNS servers to filter out only the suspect non-text TXT records, which means the torrents would have their SHA1 hashes dropped and would be useless.

d8:announce36:http://tsazz.sytes.net:6969/announce 13:creation datei1069918597e4:infod6:lengthi366858240e4:name32 :enterprise.311.hdtv-lol.[BT].avi12:piece lengthi1048576e6:pieces7000:***HASH SNIPPED***

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From what I'm reading it seems that if you simply connect to Kazzaa you get kicked, doesn't even bother checking what you're doing. I can't wait untill they start doing this for BitTorrent. Because we all know that anything that can be used for something illegal has no possible legal use

In real life you often get to personally meet those starving artists when you buy their wares or pay for performances; there's a real emotional connection there - not so online (usually). In Real Life you get a feelgood for supporting local artists, and you get a more meaningful "Thank You" when handing over your cash - online it's more antiseptic.

I would be 100 times more likely to pay for really great online content if:

1. I was recognized as more than a number (or a /. '*') for my contribution.
2. I had some idea of the artist's bottom line so I knew how badly they needed it vs. some other artist who's just as worthy but not as arbitrarily popular/rich. Call it an OpenBottomline, kind of like this. I don't like sending my money down paypal blackholes.
3. The content was released under a more open license that allows everyone to stand on others' shoulders, rather than the default Disney "AllMineMineMine!" copyright.
4. If there was some easy mechanism to pool my money with others to finance the creation of works we want.

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Torrents for the two CDs and mini-install.

Torrents for the two CDs and mini-install.

oh. you mean like this for instance?

doing a search for torrents on slashdot yelds more then a couple of results.

Perhaps you should look into it. Everyone else has already.

Bittorrent is the ideal solution for this.

RedHat and Gentoo CDs are yet available this way. Don't know about other distros.

Steam is not a P2P application, it is a way for Valve to control which game you have installed and which games you are allowed to play on the internet with. When SteamBeta was released the first time (~ yr ago) it maxed out the 700Mbps it had allocated, and now when stable they maxed out yet again. Compare this to f.scarywaters.com statistics where the slashdot crowd alone managed to get it to 1.4Gbps (the double) in less than 3hrs... Now P2P certainly isn't the solution for commercial vendors, but for amatuers sure..

Parents who give their children unrestricted access to $2000 worth of anything (like, say, a computer with internet access) are idiots.

Problem: Some vehicles are used to transport illegal drugs.

Your solution: THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!! NOBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE A CAR.

The P2P networks are a communications medium, based on the idea that there are routes from each user to everyone else on the internet. Everything - email, games, web, ftp, P2P - uses this mechanism. You can't arbitrarily stop a particular type of traffic or you'll break the internet. Saying that all P2P networks are filthy because they're used for child porn and then rambling on about beacons is about as stupid as saying:

YOU'RE USING THE INTERNET AT THE SAME TIME AS CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS!! EEEEWWWW!!

I don't doubt that illicit material is out there. However, P2P networks still aren't anonymous and it's easy to track down who is sharing any particular files. The RIAA managed to find and attempt to prosecute hundreds of music sharers. Their attempt failed because nobody cares for the RIAA given their bullying attitude. People certainly DO care about the children being abused because of porn, and I think there's no problem with the public wanting child pornographers prosecuted. However, linking sharing music and sharing kiddie porn is a crass, stupid and blatantly self-serving move.

(Besides: The music industry's been pushing ever younger stars, get their singers to show more skin, stage fake lesbian kisses on MTV for the sake of ratings, been accused and convicted of price fixing - and *THEY* want to take the moral high ground? [no offense to any lesbians, I just find MTV's sexual exploitation to be slimy])

The P2P networks do have many legitimate uses. In the future I will be pushing for my company to make promotional material (including demos and several hundred MB of example movies) officially released using P2P. Probably with BitTorrent, but maybe also Gnutella2 via "magnet://[checksum]" links (because I think linking the web and P2P in such as way is a fantastic idea). This should help relieve some of our bandwidth costs and allow users to still be get to the content while our conventional FTP servers are full.

Guess what happens when their "STEAM" content delivery system suddenly has HalfLife 2 available.

CRUNCH. No more Steam Content servers.

They say they have 1.8Gbps bandwidth, but a mere 3345 people used 1.3Gbps when the RedHat ISOs were released on BitTorrent. Centralised content distribution like Steam is simply not going to be able to handle the load for the size of files they're going to be throwing around.

Without some decentralised P2P file downloading action it's about as bright an idea as their "Powerplay" initiative (and look how that turned out).

If the show is unlicensed in the US, it is likely that you can download from BT sites like here and here.

This is how you show the Slashdot Effect on a t-shirt: http://f.scarywater.net/postmortem/

A good idea is a good idea, and it should be encouraged. End of story.

Remember to use the Bittorrent links for those who want to download the whole thing in one go.

Somebody has already done that ;) I linked the .torrent on http://f.scarywater.net/ , the original location is http://fnord.andrew.cmu.edu/nwn/index.html ... Have fun ! :)

Wandaba Style!

I was thinking of putting up a torrent for this, but figured i'd look around and see if anyone else did first. Besides the one on this thread, i found this useful site which creates torrents for slashdot linked files in general (and already has the FreeBSD 5.1 discs up), worth noting: http://f.scarywater.net/

There is *already* a 'Slashdot Victims' BitTorrent tracker. Head over to http://f.scarywater.net for your favorite Slashdot victim's wares.

Ja mata.

There's a site made for exactly this purpose:

http://f.scarywater.net/

A very interesting graph here from when they put out the Redhat 9 ISOs.

Still, it generates an insane amount of traffic.

Though, I'm not sure if they are doing seeding themselves as well, that might contribute to that traffic...

There's a site made for exactly this purpose:

http://f.scarywater.net/

A very interesting graph here from when they put out the Redhat 9 ISOs.

Still, it generates an insane amount of traffic.

Though, I'm not sure if they are doing seeding themselves as well, that might contribute to that traffic...

There's a site made for exactly this purpose:

http://f.scarywater.net/

A very interesting graph here from when they put out the Redhat 9 ISOs.

Still, it generates an insane amount of traffic.

Though, I'm not sure if they are doing seeding themselves as well, that might contribute to that traffic...

Or will scarywater be along soon to save the day?

Serving uses exactly the same program as downloading, the only difference is that when you serve you have to make the hash file yourself and publish it somewhere, then take the hash file and run it against the program, just like you would if you had downloaded it from scarywater, and it starts serving. The process is the same whether under windows or linux.

...bittorrent will be most useful as an alternative to web downloading huge legitimate files, like the Baen CD-ROMs or Linux distros. It's blazing fast, or can be, but it's just too easy to shut down a tracker/website, just like what was done to Napster. There's no anonymity here, and the only reason sites like torrentse.cx are around at all is that the RIAA/MPAA haven't noticed them yet. Once they do, kiss 'em goodbye.

For everything else, http://www.torrentse.cx, which has a comment system for each torrent file so people can post up their thoughts. Also they allow people to upload their own torrents. This site has the following sections: Misc, Movies, TV, Music, Porn, Books, Games, Software, Comics, and Anime.

Also, http://www.suprnova.org is good too, but has been having a lot of problems lately. They have: Games, Movies, TV Shows, Music, Apps, Misc, and DVD

http://www.bitetorrent.com has TV Shows, Movies, Music, Apps, Games, Comics, Anime and Misc. Allows people to upload their own torrent and has a tracker as well.

http://torrents.slash0.org/ also includes TV Shows, Movies, Games, and a Misc section.

The following are the best TV-only BitTorrent sites. http://www.marksailes.uklinux.net/bt/ http://www.tvtorrents.com

Anyways, those are the most popular BitTorrent places. And with me posting this now (and perhaps getting modded up =D), they should be even better and faster (if the website doesn't die from the load first).

Anyone got more information about the company?

Since the GoboLinux site is suffering from the Slashdot Effect, here's a link to get the ISO using BitTorrent (known for the RedHat 9 ISO for instance):

http://f.scarywater.net/

You can get your RedHat 9 ISOs there too btw.

Gobolinux torrent taken from the gobolinux site, which now appears to be accessible.

The BitTorrent for GoboLinux is available at:
http://f.scarywater.net/GoboLinux-006.iso.torrent
(those using the gobolinux.org torrent are advised to switch to the scarywater.net torrent, since the gobolinux.org one is based on a bttracker running on a machine with a dynamic IP)

ALL THE MICHEALS IN THE WORLD ARE FUCKING LOSERS!

Now help get those leaching micheals off my bandwidth!

a bittorent site specifically for slashdot victims.

go to

BitTorrent Files for Slashdot Effect Victims

Is there a BitTorrent link for this? I couldn't find one on http://f.moya.scarywater.net/

Between the time I submitted the story and the time it was run, the website hosting the ISO went offline, undoubtedly due to bandwidth issues. However, Scarywater did pick it up, and has quite a few people torrenting it now. I hardly think I need to remind people to leave their BitTorrent clients open for a while after their own download finishes, do I? :)

Make that f.scarywater.net has the Windows Test; the linux torrent has been posted here already ;)