ANN claims that Crunchyroll is to provide "a download-to-own (DTO) option without digital rights management (DRM)." If things go like that, members of the Mania.com/aodvb/ community are going to have an apoplexy. I'm happy to see it though, on the balance. I'm a fan of what is apparently known now as DTO-DRM (with iTunes being DTO+DRM, I guess?).

Unfortunately, the "clean" provider BOST (where I bought my Strike Witches) seems to be left out, and it may be a major failure for them. They were late with the announcement of the Strike Witches deal too, but we're just several days away from the October 2, and so they have very little time to catch up. I'll be watching them like a hawk and be ready to defect from those Crunchyroll pirates if possible.