How has the state of the fansubbing nation changed since then?
Personally I was not involved with fansubbing before the advent of digisubbing, but I read about how difficult, expensive and time-consuming it used to be when fansub-groups still made fansub VHS cassettes separately and send them to fans who requested them. The easy and free distribution of fansubs on the internet via bittorrent and IRC is what made fansubs popular and it greatly supported and promoted anime and the anime industry in general.
