Click here for episode one.
This is an extremely good anime series. I suggest you watch it. Has anyone else watched it? I just got past episode 25, and now I'm sad.
The summary goes like this. Light is an intelligent, but bored highschool student. One day while walking home he finds a notebook on the ground named "Death Note." He reads the beginning which states that anyones name written in the "Death Note" will die within a couple seconds. At first he thinks is a just a hoax that some highschool kid made to trick someone, but while writting in the name of a criminal, the Death Note's power kills the criminal.
You'll have to watch the rest for the later part.