One click direct download sites are a fairly popular way of sharing files in Japan, just as they are in the west. There are one click hosts in Japan called アップローダー (uploaders, eg. Doraupload), but western hosts such as Mediafire are arguably more popular.
- The Download board on 5 Channel currently has a thread 海外アップローダー総合 which deals with overseas uploaders general topics.
- The western site 4shared is notable in that the interface can be displayed in Japanese, and it has a search engine that can locate the files its hosts.
- Akiba-Online is a forum with links to many Japanese adult videos and some anime and manga hosted mainly on Filejoker.
- Anime-sharing is a similar forum with a focus on hentai manga, but also links to related anime, games and magazines.
- Ulozto.net is a searchable Slovakian file host which hosts some Japanese pdf's, torrents and videos.
- Dl-zip.com is a blog with links to raw (i.e. untranslated) manga, Japanese novels and other books and magazines.
- Jpfiles is a blog with links to Japanese books, music, movies, tv shows, anime, magazines, etc.
- Chomikuj.pl is a searchable Polish file host.
- Book Share ZIP is a blog with links to Japanese books, magazines and manga.
- Blogjav.net is unsurprisingly a blog with links to JAV.
- JAV Library started out as a database with pictures of actresses and DVD covers, but members sometimes post DDL links in the comment space below an entry.
- Doramax264 is a blog with links to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and Filipino TV dramas. Project Restoration specializes in to old Japanese drama TV shows.
- Japan Share Blog has links to just about everything: books, games, manga, movies, music, software and TV shows, while Raw-zip is a blog linking to mainly manga and photobooks.
- Pdf-giant, Pdfmagazinesclub and Storemags are western blogs with links to some Japanese magazines.
Monday, April 29, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Bittorrent
University of Buffalo student Bram Cohen released the first version of Bittorrent in 2001. Initially, Bittorrent had relatively little impact on the Japanese p2p scene, as first WinMX and then Winny and then Perfect Dark seemed to get the most use. Eventually though, western and Chinese developers released Japanese versions of their clients: Bittorrent, Bitcomet, qbittorrent, Deluge and Transmission. Qbittorrent has no ads, is lightweight, and is perhaps the best-regarded of the current crop of torrenting programs on the English web.
While programs like Perfect Dark try to provide anonymity, the IP address of a user is clearly visible in most torrent programs, so some users turn to anonymizing addons (e.g. i2p, Tor), clients (Tribler), proxies (Cybersyndrome), seedboxes (Seedr) or virtual private networks (Hide.me) in an effort to preserve their privacy.
The number of Japanese users on Bittorrent may be smaller than other networks, but by 2013, the bandwidth being used in Japan by torrent clients had apparently surpassed all other p2p networks.
I don't think there are any torrent trackers based in Japan, but there are quite a few trackers and index sites in the rest of the world that link to Japanese content.
- Nyaa is the largest Japanese tracker, and focuses on anime and music. It does have some manga and live action tv shows, often with an anime tie-in. Nyaa has an associated site for adult videos at Sukebei.
- Tokyo Toshokan 東京図書館 is a torrent index of adult videos, anime, games, hentai, manga, music and TV dramas. The torrents are often tracked on Nyaa or Sukebei or the other trackers listed here.
- Akiba Online is an English Language forum with a huge number of Japanese Adult Video downloads hosted on Filejoker, but it has a sizeable torrent section covering JAV, Idol and Hentai as well as more mainstream manga and anime.
- Rutracker is a tracker/forum completely in Russian, but it has a surprising amount of Japanese movies, books and CDs, often labelled in Japanese.
- Avistaz is a private tracker with Japanese, Chinese and Korean movie and TV drama torrents.
- Bt4g appears to be a Chinese torrent search engine compiled by scraping Distributed Hash Tables, and thus has torrents with Japanese content. BTDig, Solidtorrents and Bitsearch are western DHT torrent search engines. Torrentkitty is a Chinese/Singaporean torrent search engine with a Japanese interface. - Javbus, Onejav and Javjunkies are blogs where the webmaster posts torrents for Japanese adult videos. - The Download board on 2channel is one of the main forums for discussion of Japanese file sharing. At the moment, there are several Bittorrent related threads. The BTで拾えるエロ動画スレ thread deals with erotic videos that can be picked up on Bittorrent. The Nyaa thread is devoted to a discussion of torrents that can be found on the Nyaa tracker/index site. The BitTorrent総合スレ thread covers general Bittorrent matters. There are also now threads on Akiba Online and Javjunkies.
- Nipponsei Music Fresh from Japan is a torrent tracker/index of music, mainly anime soundtracks and J-pop.
- Jpopsuki is an invitation-only private torrent tracker for J-pop.
- Anime Sharing is a forum focused on links to direct downloads for hentai manga, but it also has a torrent section with hentai anime and games, and there is a smattering of music and magazines.
- Anirena is an English anime torrent tracker/database.
- D-Addicts was at one time a tracker for Japanese, Chinese and Korean dramas, but now it is just a forum where torrents are not allowed to be posted. it has some subtitles though, and lots of information about file sharing in Asia.
While programs like Perfect Dark try to provide anonymity, the IP address of a user is clearly visible in most torrent programs, so some users turn to anonymizing addons (e.g. i2p, Tor), clients (Tribler), proxies (Cybersyndrome), seedboxes (Seedr) or virtual private networks (Hide.me) in an effort to preserve their privacy.
The number of Japanese users on Bittorrent may be smaller than other networks, but by 2013, the bandwidth being used in Japan by torrent clients had apparently surpassed all other p2p networks.
I don't think there are any torrent trackers based in Japan, but there are quite a few trackers and index sites in the rest of the world that link to Japanese content.
- Nyaa is the largest Japanese tracker, and focuses on anime and music. It does have some manga and live action tv shows, often with an anime tie-in. Nyaa has an associated site for adult videos at Sukebei.
- Tokyo Toshokan 東京図書館 is a torrent index of adult videos, anime, games, hentai, manga, music and TV dramas. The torrents are often tracked on Nyaa or Sukebei or the other trackers listed here.
- Akiba Online is an English Language forum with a huge number of Japanese Adult Video downloads hosted on Filejoker, but it has a sizeable torrent section covering JAV, Idol and Hentai as well as more mainstream manga and anime.
- Rutracker is a tracker/forum completely in Russian, but it has a surprising amount of Japanese movies, books and CDs, often labelled in Japanese.
- Avistaz is a private tracker with Japanese, Chinese and Korean movie and TV drama torrents.
- Bt4g appears to be a Chinese torrent search engine compiled by scraping Distributed Hash Tables, and thus has torrents with Japanese content. BTDig, Solidtorrents and Bitsearch are western DHT torrent search engines. Torrentkitty is a Chinese/Singaporean torrent search engine with a Japanese interface. - Javbus, Onejav and Javjunkies are blogs where the webmaster posts torrents for Japanese adult videos. - The Download board on 2channel is one of the main forums for discussion of Japanese file sharing. At the moment, there are several Bittorrent related threads. The BTで拾えるエロ動画スレ thread deals with erotic videos that can be picked up on Bittorrent. The Nyaa thread is devoted to a discussion of torrents that can be found on the Nyaa tracker/index site. The BitTorrent総合スレ thread covers general Bittorrent matters. There are also now threads on Akiba Online and Javjunkies.
- Nipponsei Music Fresh from Japan is a torrent tracker/index of music, mainly anime soundtracks and J-pop.
- Jpopsuki is an invitation-only private torrent tracker for J-pop.
- Anime Sharing is a forum focused on links to direct downloads for hentai manga, but it also has a torrent section with hentai anime and games, and there is a smattering of music and magazines.
- Anirena is an English anime torrent tracker/database.
- D-Addicts was at one time a tracker for Japanese, Chinese and Korean dramas, but now it is just a forum where torrents are not allowed to be posted. it has some subtitles though, and lots of information about file sharing in Asia.
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