A practical guide to downloading anime:

I've adapted these instructions from a handy email on the NYU Anime Club listserv. I know most people reading this blog don't actually download anime, so this is largely for my own notes.

A practical guide to downloading anime:

ABC is the best, most practical BitTorrent client I've tried:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pingpong-abc/ABC-win32-v2.6.1.exe?download

(or if you're a Mac user: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html )

Install it. Open it. Go to:

Action > ABC Preference > Advanced Settings
Set "Max peer connections" at 60 (to avoid the "freezing" problem all BitTorrent clients suffer from).

Then search for stuff to download on:
http://www.suprnova.org (everything)
http://www.animesuki.com/ (unlicensed anime)
http://anime.mircx.com (all anime)
http://a.scarywater.net/ (BitTorrent "base" for many anime fansubbers)

Other personal favorites, for anime:

http://animetorrents.com/
http://a.scarywater.net/live-evil/
http://www.a2000a.com/bt/
http://www.akbit.ath.cx:6969/
http://anime-xtreme.com/
http://baka-updates.com

Not all movie files play on all computers - in particular macs have trouble opening avi files, I've found. That's why the gods of programming gave us the VLC player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The VLC player can play just about anything.

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