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Ars has the best scoop, and Bruce Schneier offers an additional transcript. This seems like a real war (PCs 0wned, DoS, and guvmint), which we haven't yet started feeling despite the best efforts of ADV's Ledford and the like, but the one is bound to remake anime as we know it. In the U.S., pirating of the mainstream TV dwarfs the anime distribution while sitting on the same basic technology, so whatever happens there is going to happen here. I am concerned the most how the outright anime pirates like KAA cannot be distinguished from normal fansubbers and thus all are going to be swept into this.

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