i was a raw capper of japanese TV from about 2000-2008. article is pretty much spot on. we started out on winmx, with huge userlists. the fun thing about winmx

i was a raw capper of japanese TV from about 2000-2008. article is pretty much spot on. we started out on winmx, with huge userlists. the fun thing about winmx it downloaded in order, it didnt grab multiple pieces of random parts of the file. i could start a download, startup my FXP ftp client and start uploading immediately (would have to cap it so it didnt complete the upload before the download completed). after a few years winmx started to die out, the familiar reputable uploaders we kept eyes are gone. (probably arrents and some people retiring). then came winny, it was a little harder to use but then we figured out you can just search the hash for the uploader and started grabbing all their content with ease. it was pretty nice. used share, didnt like it as much as winny. winny eventually came to an end, well the uploaders were gone like winmx. by the time perfect dark came out, we already invested in local japanese residents to cap the streams directly and we no longer needed to use japanese p2p software as a source of some of our caps as we could cap anything in hd.