Anime Help: How to download anime without bit torrent?

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Please help me!!!!!!!!!! :dizzy2:

Do any of u guys out there got a link to download anime without using bit torrent?
I don't like to use bit torrent.

 

I don't think there is any safe way to dl anime without bittoorent or another torrent client. Try Azureus.

 

Is there something wrong with purchasing the DVDs from stores? That's the best way to get anime. You get the satisfaction of OWNING the anime, not the icky feeling of merely 'having' it, you get all the nifty special features they always include, and, perhaps best of all, it's legal.

I realize that the price can be somewhat prohibitive, but in the long run, isn't it better, in fact, more fulfilling to purchase it, even if you have to wait to be able to afford it?

[EDIT] To clarify, I was assuming he was talking about downloading licensed anime, which I am strongly opposed to. As for unlicensed, I don't have many problems, although I personally would rather wait for it to be licensed.

 

I use Shareaza to search for the torrents. Well there are also specialized websites.

Then I use ABC ([yet] Another BitTorrent Client) to download 'em.

ABC is cool, much more user friendly than the bittorrent official client.

See... you got two options to d/d anime:

any bittorrent client, or shareaza. You won't like shareaza, you have to wait until someone having the *specific* version you want, logs on.

Bittorrent, on the other hand...

Maybe you don't like it because the bittorrent files are VERY LONG? Well that's the only way to assure someone *WILL* log on and have the file. Smaller files tend to go offline as leeches finish download them. And this happens both in bittorrent and any p2p network.

Perhaps bittorrent should make sure you first download a *SPECIFIC* file in the pack... but there's no client that does that yet.

Sorry :-/

 

How about the fact that hundreds of anime titles are unavailable outside of Japan and through download?

 

I use Azureus as my BT client; very robust and I found Sharaza to be utterly awful with download speeds.

 

Its also perfectly legal to have unlicensed anime downloaded. Since its not licenced outside Japan then there no copyright infringment. It's only when they have been licenced by a US company that they become illegal to download, and therefore most sites remove them from futher download..... i think. If i'm wrong on this somebody feel free to correct me. This what i've been told aboutnhow it works.

 

U know i wouldn't mind downloading anime my self but one question I have to ask since your all talking about it what is this "bit torrent" stuff your talking about and which is the best programe to have?

 

Allow me to correct.

Here's how bittorrent works:

There's this thing called "torrent", which essentially contains a list of all the files in use by a package, and it also has a checksum for every N bytes.

Once you download the torrent file and open it, your bittorrent program connects to some websites (called TRACKERS) that have this torrent listed. The tracker gives you a list of *ALL* the people downloading or having *this* particular package at the time (usually the tracker is just one of those).

So what your client does is connect to the other clients and starts downloading.
When your download finishes, it becomes a "seed" (completed download), available for others to download. Net-etiquette recommends you leaving this torrent open, so others can download from you.

Bittorrent has some advantages over shareaza/etc:

* It was designed with legal downloads in mind. (Actually, to ease the load on web servers, for example there were torrents to download Mozilla Firefox)
* You don't have to share *other* files to download a file in particular.
* you can be sure that when you finished donwloading, your download isn't corrupted - the torrent file checks for corrupted pieces

My advice to the guy who asked, is to download a user-friendly bittorrent program (like ABC, or Azureus) and forget about Shareaza and similars.

 

See, the problem here is an error in communication. I didn't realize he was talking about downloading unlicensed anime, which I have no problems against. I assumed he was talking about download anime in general, licensed or no. Obviously, an error on my part. Also, I failed to communicate that assumption in my last post, thus further deepening the hole.

Anyway, I do understand exactly what you're saying, and I agree with it completely. I apologize for my failure to communicate my meaning. As I said, I assumed he was asking where to download anime in general, not simply unlicenesed anime.

Ehh, uhh, I'm not sure. Kazaa, maybe? WinMX? I guess Napster is out of the question, eh? I'm really not sure on this.

 

I've been looking everywhere for something like that, and I have finally found something. I have no idea what bittorrent is, just go to www.kazaa.com and figure out if it is or not. I'm just glad it works.

 

Unfortunatly Kazza lets you download licenced anime, in fact i think its pretty hard to get unlicensed anime with Kazza.

 

Please don't post links to licensed anime site Buy their dvds instead!

Anyhow, I don't think there's another method to get unlicensed anime without using Bittorrent.

- Teddz

 

I don't see why somthin like say Naruto (recent licensed) is considered legal until all of a sudden its licensed in the USA.

The fact is, just because anime is not licensed outside of Japan does NOT make it "legal" you are still infringing the copyright of the Japanese owners. Its just that the Japanese do not have easy ways to legally prevent filesharing their work in a country outside of Japan UNLESS it is licensed in that country.

The fact is its just as "illegal" to download unlicensed anime as it is to download licensed stuff. The difference is , if you are American, all of a sudden there is a corporation in the USA (usually USa, because bugger all anime is licensed in a lot of other parts of the world) who can sue your ass. Oviously, the same is true when that hapens in Australia, Ireland, wherever.

I suppose the Japanese could set up corporations or whatever, to license ALL their work, immediately in every part of the world, as soon as it is out in Japan. Thats how the MPAA and RIAA members work it with American movies and music and tv. Lets be thankful the Japanese dont care to do that (yet anyway), but don't pretend unlicensed anime is legal, it's not.

Frankly, i dont think there is any harm in distributing anime that isnt licensed in your region, because nobody loses by it, and in fact i think the producers benefit because it creates a market for if ever they decide to license in that region. I think some of the sensable producers realise this too. But legally, thats not relevent.

 

I tend to buy my anime...which is why I don't have a very extensive collection it's an expensive hobby...but that's what friends are for XDD So I can't really help you there...I know there is a program called limewire and this is aside from kazaa streamload and stuff...I'd say it is similar...

Speaking of Naruto, has anyone else heard the rumor that they may be putting it on foxbox...or is it 4 kids 5 now? Terror of terrors.