So you can not download legal movies

[snooker]

Hi ... I ask earlier what site is good to download movies from and the post got stop before i could comment on it ... I am talking about legal movies ( paid types ) You can paid for music downloads but what you can't do it for dvd movies , I don't see why you can do it for music but not for dvd ??? Also if your going to stop a post at least tell the person as to why it was done , don't just do it for the sake of it ... Thanks

[DayFour]

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[iooi]

You can paid for music downloads but what you can't do it for dvd movies , I don't see why you can do it for music but not for dvd ???

Proberly more to do with the size of a film and the length of time it takes to down load.
Lets just say a full dvd takes me 10 hours on a 1 meg adsl connection at full whack... Now i know a lot of the world has faster connections but is there enough of a market to make running such a scheme viable just yet. Certainly not yet in the UK, although there is one company who are trialing in the london area.
Give it a few years and it maybe a starter.

[BJ_M]

Thanks for your interest in Movielink, the leading source for movies delivered directly over the internet. We want you to enjoy our powerful movie download experience, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States.

[Supreme2k]

Also, it may be in the wording of your request.

You asked for a site/way to download DVDs, which suggests warez (pirated movie). Kind of like asking how to download a CD, versus asking from what site you can buy songs and download songs.

The main thing is that you never asked about paying for them. If you were to ask "Does anyone know of a site where I can purchase and download movies?", you would have gotten much different responses.

Basically, if you have a legit question, ask the whole question so that no mistakes are made. I think that it's more likely that you were asking for warez and got caught, now you're making up this back-story to cover your ass.

No harm done, so just move along.

[snooker]

Supreme2k Hi ... Dude i any making anything up , i just assume that the other members would of thought i was talking about the paid sites ... I know about the illegal sites like bit torrent stuff , thats garbage in my opinion... I have more brains then that to ask about illegal sites ... But i will say you are right it was my mistake for not to mention paid sites ... Maybe whom ever stop my post could of instant message me and correct me before stoping it .... Oh yes and thanks goes to the members that gave there advise

PS : I'm just a beginner here

[lordsmurf]

Your pirate avatar didn't help either.

[BJ_M]

you are in canada also and the usa legal download sites don't work here ..

at least the ones i checked ..

[snooker]

lordsmurf thats funny because i just put that on now , any ways can i get back to my question thanks ... Is there any good paid website , clubs or whatever for dvd movies ??? I'm trying to find one that has many selection to choice from for a canadian like myself ... Is there one that stands above all else ??? Thanks

[richdvd]

Why don't you just go to a video store and rent them??
Do you know how long it will take to download DVDs off the net??

[snooker]

Richdvd Hi ... No i don't know how long it will take , maybe you can share that with me ??? I have high speed with rogers and the motorola modem ... As for the video store i don't care much for them , half the times they don't have what i want ... Beside you would have to bring them back , i'm talking about owning them , not renting them ...

[LNielsen76]

Regardless your intentions were innocent or not, the post, in its ambiguity, needed to be stopped before anyone replied with illegal warez sites.

[snooker]

Hey i got the POINT can we pls get off that topic and get back to my question ??? Thanks

[Supreme2k]

i'm talking about owning them , not renting them ...

Amazon.ca?

Seriously, DVDs are so cheap nowadays, it's worth it to buy them and not put up with the hassle of broken downloads, shitty encodes, or transferring to DVD.

[handyguy]

A legal dvd would probably be rared so it wouldn't be that big. Probably come down in a few hours with grabbit. Perhaps just start the download before you go to bed & wake up & its ready.

You can get anything you want on Usenet & free. 'nuff said.

[housepig]

Beside you would have to bring them back , i'm talking about owning them , not renting them ...

AFAIK, any legal download site is going to have DRM on the files, which will restrict your usage of them (ie no burning to disc, or playing with an 'unapproved' player, or transferring them to different computers) and some are set to time-out after a specified period or a specified number of viewings...

.. .so you are, in essence, renting them, not buying them.

[snooker]

Supreme2k >>> Thanks for that site it look like a good one ...

housepig >>> Now this is more of the kind of info i want to hear about ... Okay i have a question about your topic , What if you keep them on your hard drive and never burn anything , just keep them there and use them when ever you feel like or better yet what if you have a External Hard Drives and load them all in there , you could still be able to use them where ever right ??? Now i am talking about the ones that don't have as you say set to time-out after a specified period or a specified number of viewings ... Lastly would this still be consider illegal ??? I mean i'm paying for them and they only going to stay on the hard drive ... Thanks

[BJ_M]

A legal dvd would probably be rared so it wouldn't be that big. Probably come down in a few hours with grabbit. Perhaps just start the download before you go to bed & wake up & its ready.

You can get anything you want on Usenet & free. 'nuff said.

mpeg files and wmv9 files do not compress much at all when rar'd - the overall file size stays about the same ..

point two ... do not discuss warez

[housepig]

What if you keep them on your hard drive ... and use them when ever you feel like or.. what if you have a External Hard Drives and load them all in there , you could still be able to use them where ever right ???

it would depend on the DRM that the distributor was using - what if it doesn't allow you to move the file or save it to an external harddrive? what if it's keyed to a particular media player on a specific machine?

if you can find a site that offers unlimited views and full portability on the files, more power to you - I just haven't seen any that are that free with the media. studios aren't looking at downloading to replace DVD sales, they are looking at it to compete with dvd rentals at this point .

[snooker]

So more or less there isn't any that does and if there was it probably wouldn't be as good as the dvd disk itself ?? Thanks for your input i appreciated ... Though i now am curious as to what purpose does it make to have a big hard drive like 100gigs and up ??? I mean the average Joe couldn't fill his HHD with just data itself , right ???

[lordsmurf]

.. Though i now am curious as to what purpose does it make to have a big hard drive like 100gigs and up ??? I mean the average Joe couldn't fill his HHD with just data itself , right ???

I have a 600GB primary system, about 90% full of projects right now. None of it is "doWn7odz".

[snooker]

lordsmurf >>> You don't seem to stop making me laugh I did say the average Joe ... Anyone with 600 gb wouldn't be consider as average but then again i might be wrong ...

[BJ_M]

So more or less there isn't any that does and if there was it probably wouldn't be as good as the dvd disk itself ?? Thanks for your input i appreciated ... Though i now am curious as to what purpose does it make to have a big hard drive like 100gigs and up ??? I mean the average Joe couldn't fill his HHD with just data itself , right ???

100GB is small comapred to average nowdays ....

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=977709#977709 is mine (about 3000GB's) , but not so average .. but many have 200 -300 GB's

[housepig]

Though i now am curious as to what purpose does it make to have a big hard drive like 100gigs and up ???

when I bought my first add-in hard drive, it was 240 Megabytes, and it increased my storage by 240%. I thought "340 megs... that's all I'll need. I'll never fill it."

that was when the video games I played regularly on the computer came on one 3.5" disc. The last one I loaded on my system (Unreal 2004) is 3 cd-roms.

the applications and data sets will expand to fill the average system... now that I have 260Gb of space, I think nothing of running a few hours of captures, even though they would have totally filled the hard drives I used just a couple of years ago.

[iooi]

Richdvd Hi ... No i don't know how long it will take , maybe you can share that with me ??? I have high speed with rogers and the motorola modem ... As for the video store i don't care much for them , half the times they don't have what i want ... Beside you would have to bring them back , i'm talking about owning them , not renting them ...

See my first post for how long on a 1 meg line it takes... Oh go on then.. 10 hours at full speed...and that is rared up..
Why not try one of the online rental shops where they mail you disks and you mail back when finsihed. Not sure state side but here in the UK most have 17,000+ disks to choose from so they bound to have what you want all for a small monthly fee.

[PIntag]

A legal dvd would probably be rared so it wouldn't be that big. Probably come down in a few hours with grabbit. Perhaps just start the download before you go to bed & wake up & its ready....

Dude, you don't really "get" what video encoding is all about. ALL of these video formats (mpeg, divx, DV, etc.) already ARE compressed. That's what encoding is all about -- how to compress video with the best perceived quality possible. If it were as simple as losslessly compressing a video file (e.g. in RAR format), there would be no need for MPEG2 or any other video format. How is it possible that you have 1300+ posts on this forum and not understand this?

[Treebeard]

Your pirate avatar didn't help either.

Whats wrong w/ pirate avatars?

[richdvd]

A legal dvd would probably be rared so it wouldn't be that big. Probably come down in a few hours with grabbit. Perhaps just start the download before you go to bed & wake up & its ready.

You can get anything you want on Usenet & free. 'nuff said.

WTF?

[gitreel]

Regardless your intentions were innocent or not, the post, in its ambiguity, needed to be stopped before anyone replied with illegal warez sites.

Why do people not understand the site itself is not illegal. You can get things that are free and legal from them for free. Things like linux which is covered by the gpl license.

I get tired of people referring to these sites as being illegal.

[gitreel]

I know about the illegal sites like bit torrent stuff

FYI, Bittorrent is not illegal. Bittorrent is a program, not a website. P2P was ruled legal by a judge, and sites like suprnova are not illegal, because you can get things like linux off of it. If something has noninfringing uses, it is not illegal.