Like I said, I suppose I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to this stuff. Ok, well, I missed a few episodes of Kenshin recently, and instead of buying them, I had hoped I could download them. No such luck. It is harder than I thought to find a site that has what I want (I don't have kazza or kazza lite). And any sites that I found said something about "bittorent"? What is that? And then there was something about "fansubs"...which I'm guessing the name is a bit self-explanitory, right? Well, if you know what I'm talking about, I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks!

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2003

Answers

Bittorrent is like...kazaa except people use it only to download anime and fansubs...i dont no what it is

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2003

Bittorrent is a program that allows you to download from multiple users like kazaa/k++. However, unlike kazaa you can download file fragments from people who doesn't have a complete file yet. Some terminology:
seeds - The people that are finished downloading the file and will send file fragments to other people who needs it.
peers - People who are not yet finished with the downloading, they're sending and receiving file fragments at the same time.
go to http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/ and download from any mirror, you should read the official bt faq for more info, just search it on google and the first result will be it.
fansubs themselves are self-explanatory, the difference between those and dvds are fansubbers do not get paid while dvd companies do.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2003

fansubs are when fans of a series sub the series, they aren't making any money from doing so... after you download bittorrent check out http://suprnova.web.siol.com for kenshin... also a great place to download unlicensed anime is animesuki.com

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2003

fansub = translated delayed rebroadcast

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2003

Thanks everyone! I think I get it now!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2003