BS: Downloading Movies

Subject: BS: Downloading Movies
From: GUEST,film buff
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:34 AM

Does anyone know of any decent legitimate service where I can just download films and watch at my leisure? I am currently signed up with Starz...but am looking for other options as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:45 AM

"legitimate"

Nope...

use eMule...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:13 AM

How does eMule work then, Clinton? Just been on their web site and it looks kind of interesteing but it seems I need to download a client. Is it Kazaa-ish? If so does it contain the same sort of spyware?

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:46 AM

Yes it's Kazaa-sih....

No, it has no 'spyware' you need to worry about...

It can however be a right bugger to set up properly... it is NOT for the computer illiterate...

Good luck DtG!

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: GUEST,paranoid
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:03 PM

and these peer to peer dowloaders ARE being monitored
by law enforcement agencies..

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:12 PM

Ball-sack... but even if they are, so what??

let 'em look... there's nothing they can do to ME....

I KNOW that...

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:10 PM

According to the news reports, here's what's happening. P2P download systems include a certain pressure to offer files as well as downloading them. The RIAA has been sueing both downloaders and uploaders for some time. The MPAA (movies) has just started. They've already managed to close the major BitTorrent server. Your ISP knows who you are and may or may not resist handing the information over if subpoenaed. If they resist, the case may or may not go in their favour. The RIAA has been winning consistantly, of late. Your best protection is the fact that you're just another target out of thousands. Take the chance, if you want. The average RIAA demand has been US$3000; the MPAA wants a lot more.

Need I say that most P2P downloadable movies are illegal? It's been said that quality varies from awful to perfect. You won't know 'til you look at it.

There are closed P2P groups. Traffic logs indicate who they are but the nature of that trafic is private. So far.

The economics of these lawsuits stinks. Ultimately, they lose money. Neither the RIAA nor the MPAA seem to be bothered by that. Both are rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:34 PM

The losing money part is a portion of the motivation for such suits: Make the target, the alleged infringing user, pay out a lot of money in court costs, because the big organizations can afford it better. It's intimidation mainly, with a certain amount of revenge in it, I think. Even if the charging organization loses the lawsuit, they win in the long run by arm-twisting and scare tactics.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:36 PM

RIAA... and MPAA are AMERICAN agencies, and have NO jurisdiction over me...

Canada has ruled differently than the US did when it comes to PTP file sharing...

So they can chew me...

:-)

I file share with impunity!

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 06:08 PM

IIRC, the Canadian ruling didn't say that file sharing was OK, it just said that the software to share files was, despite the possibility of abuse, entirely legal. The fact that the RIAA and MPAA are American doesn't stop them from filing suit in a Canadian court. Remember that the case that forced Lindows to change their name to Linspire was filed in Europe. Two US companies; Lindows won the case here but lost in Europe. An action may be brought where-ever the occasion for it occurs. The thing that protects Canadian file sharers is the difficulty of identifying them. Should that problem disappear, I predict another round of suits.

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 06:14 PM

I am unconcerned...

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: GUEST,DTG Sans cookie on borrowed Xwindows.
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 10:47 AM

Can I share files with impunity? How many movies has he got...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 02:48 PM

All of them

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Teresa
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 03:21 PM

Well, unless you want to be online constantly with a dialup, it'd be best to have a broadband connection for downloading movies, as they are monster files.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM

Isn't that what broadband was invented for?

Faster, bigger porn...

LoL

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM

Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*tentacles waving overhead*

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:41 PM

Run Kodos! He's got a board with a nail in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Downloading Movies
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 04:42 PM

Earthling! Your mighty intellect is no match for our puny weapons!