From: tnaran@no-more-virii-please.direct.ca   
      
   bobbie sellers wrote:   
   >     I guess they have done this because the original story was   
   > published on the net as the events depicted transpired and   
   > so it may have escaped copyright protections.   
      
   It was public domain on 2ch so there were a couple movies, a TV series,   
   3-4 manga and at least 2 novels based on it.   
      
   I think I like Fountain of Trivia's social experiment on the otaku of   
   Akihabara testing their courage to see if Densha Otoko could be plausible.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)