Largest US Anime Distributor Goes BitTorrent

securitas writes "The New York Times' Charles Solomon reports that 'ADV Films, the largest distributor of anime in the United States is releasing promotional packages via the BitTorrent.' The use of BitTorrent is already extremely popular among anime fans who trade films that are unavailable outside of Japan as well as their own subtitled versions, known as fansubs. The company's first experiment with a Madlax torrent in July was so well-received that ADV is launching the bonus promotional packages for upcoming releases Gilgamesh and Goddanar. The question is will other distributors and studios follow ADV's example or stick to their current distribution models?"

Comments

Anime fans,

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one who can't stand anime and anime fans? I wonder why so many computer people are into it anyway.

Re:Nice Biased Article

[dirty]

Copyright infringement is theft, at least in the US. Like it or not that's how the law is currently written. If you don't agree with it, try to get the law changed, but simply saying it's not theft won't make it true.

Anime meets sleezy advertizing.

[Njall]

When they did this promo release in July I was tantalized enough to immediately download it. It was visual tripe. Fast paced clips, 1sec each, with nothing that even begins to suggest what the program is about. Completely void of any value.

Not worth, IMHO, the time it took to delete it.