Anxious times in the cartoon underground | CNET News.com (Anime fileswapping sites get legal threats)

"In early December, a bombshell dropped onto one of the fastest-growing file-swapping communities online, where Nikolai Nolan has made his home for the last several years....But in early December, a studio called Media Factory began sending letters to a handful of big anime fan sites ordering them to stop distributing or linking to copies of its works online."

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That's the way to win over your fans. Threaten them.

Tetsuo!