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Originally Posted by Jazz_Shoes (Ash) Ok, when it comes to downloading off the internet i'm a muggle so need help from all of you smart computer people.
Firstly, are they safe? |
ESG's answered this.
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Originally Posted by Jazz_Shoes (Ash) Are they legal? |
Ahh, now you're asking the toughies...
Looking at the disclaimer for rocketspeedmovies, for example, we see:
"Purchase of a membership, however, is not a license to upload or download copyright material. We do not condone copyright infringement and we urge you to respect the copyright laws of your Country.
*Using file-sharing (P2P) software for the uploading or downloading of copyrighted works without the permission or authorization of the copyright holders may be illegal and could subject you (or the ISP subscriber) to civil and/or criminal liability and penalties. For more information about U.S. copyright law, please visit http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ and http://www.copyright.gov/title17."
Any movies, songs etc. you download may be copyright - so technically this would be illegal.
As far as I know, there's no officially-sanctioned movie download mechanism as yet, although I'm sure it'll come soon - the US movie industry and
RIAA is trying its best, Knut-like, to hold back the tide of technology for file downloads (mainly focussing on music, admittedly), but at some point they'll lose.
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Originally Posted by Jazz_Shoes (Ash) |
Both of these are P2P (filesharing) sites, from a quick look - like napster, limewire, etc.
I certainly wouldn't pay money to join these;
limewire is free and reasonably efficient, or so I've heard.
However, at the moment, I don't think what you want exists - and from a practical point of view, downloading a movie that could be 1Gb+ in size may be a waste of time if you don't know what quality the movie will be.
Stick with Blockbusters
