Nope. The toku fandom has been around for a long time. Jill's sentai spoilers site was around LONG before there was a tv-nihon. We were sharing tapes, dvds, RM files and other things to each other via Usenet and IRC.

Even in the case of torrents, they're becoming more and more efficient. Eg, PirateBay's switched entirely to magnet links now, which are even more decentralized than torrent files.

And the next iteration of P2P, in my estimation, will likely be something that further anonymizes so as to make it impossible to ID the users.

Which is why I think it's silly for Toei or any other company to release their licenses to places like iTunes or Hulu, etc. The show's already shot, why not make more profits by making it available world wide?

Hiya guys, this is Solidarity from KRDL.info.

It's great that you guys are discussing the site! However, a few things need to be cleared up.

I live in the UK. Not the US. I host nothing licensed. If Toei ask me to stop distroing kamen rider or whatever, I will do as told. However, they never had, and because of fansubbers I purchase figures, giving them revenue. And I'm sure it's similar for everyone else.

Everyone can benefit!

Also, it's not a hub for TVN, at least, not anymore.

I've been in talk with Over-Time & Grownups in Spandex about hosting all of their content. And also a spanish subber too.

Other than that, the server will not be hammered, I work on the site a lot, I can run multiple servers at once. I have the money to do this, and the donors to help if I get stuck. If you have any questions, PM me, or get on twitter @krdlinfo. Or better still, sign up over at krdl.info and shoot me an email.

Do not speculate, just enjoy the free downloads!!

Dude, thanks for supporting the fan community, hope you won't get into trouble for all your hard work!

I'm sure I won't, and thanks for the support!

The thing is, though, that Toei doesn't really give a shit that there are people outside of Japan who want to watch their shows. Bandai is cool with us buying Figuarts or SICs, but the guys that actually make the show couldn't care less about foreign fans.

Because they make a fortune on Power Rangers.

Might not be worth the investment in their eyes.

I'd never understand that, if they've already shot the show, and it's just sitting there, throwing it up for iTunes won't cost them anything, maybe hiring a good Sub team or something.