The availability of legal streaming options has significantly reduced the necessity for torrents, though gaps remain.
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Before the era of Crunchyroll, Netflix, and Hulu, anime fandom in the West relied on a different kind of pipeline. In the 1990s and early 2000s, fans would trade VHS tapes recorded from Japanese television, often with handwritten subtitles. By the mid-2000s, this evolved into digital fansubbing, distributed via BitTorrent. this evolved into digital fansubbing