With the spectacular rise of community video sites in the last couple of years, their consequent abuse has also been quite widespread. With respect to anime, lots of users flocked to YouTube to watch uploads of fan-subbed or Raw versions of anime which were usually neatly organised into Channels (something like playlists). This avoided having to download stuff from IRC, Bit Torrent or emule, and in the latter two cases, having to wait for an entire file to download before being able to watch it.