True story, but the first year or so of my life on the internet was dedicated to searching SM spoilers/trailers and downloading videos in the school lab... to floppies. Lots and lots of floppies... where-ever I could find them, used, unused all the same to me
Adult Swim was a welcome change to the young anime fan in the US who had to pay through the nose for "unaltered" copies of things. Not so bad if you got it on DVD, but in the case of SM and licensing issues, the only way we could get SM unaltered /w subs was to pay some weird website to create homebrewed VHS' with their own subtitles...
Then came the wonderful age of IRC fileservs and CD burners
