Friday, September 10, 2010

There Is A Lot Of Movie Download Sites Available Now

By Gary Santana

The point behind most movie download sites is to offer free movies to users. That, however, is illegal, because you are essentially stealing something that should be paid for. Not all sites are like this, but most of them are, and the theory behind them is exactly that: free content.

One of the types of download sites is streaming sites. By using these sites, you'll be buffering movie content as you watch it and do so directly on the website. You won't have to download any files onto your computer and you can watch the movie right away. In return, the quality is significantly worse than a fully downloaded movie. Some of them, however, are free to use and are completely legal, but that's because of the many advertisements that are posted on the site.

When I say they are paid for by advertisements, I don't mean that you get the occasional pop up or there's a banner on the home page. These sites are littered with ads that cover the majority of the page. Going back to the fact that you have to have a strong enough computer to get the full quality of the video, these advertisements suck up some of that power. So you need that much more power just to compensate for that.

This method is called torrent downloading. When downloading through a torrent, your computer is interpreting these information files to allow it connect to many different computers around the world. Each of these computers contains the movie file in question and your computer is taking a little bit of the file from each one. The process is slow, normally taking several hours or even days, but you'll get a better video out of it, since you'll watch it from your desktop rather than the web.

If you plan to use this method, you'll need to have a torrent "downloader" that can read these files. They are able to make this connection for you and acquire the movie within them. The programs themselves are guaranteed to slow down your computer because how how processor heavy they are, and so are commonly run during times when you won't be using your computer, like while you're at work or sleeping.

Since these methods are illegal, it's a very bad idea to use them, as the repercussions are dire.There are, however, some sites that are completely legal, because you have to pay for the content. These sites will require prior membership and offer a vast archive of content. More importantly, the content is likely to be very good quality, because they can afford to get the best of the best for movies.

How you obtain or watch these movies is the same as the illegal versions that are out there. You can find sites that stream movies or offer download-able movie files. Both forms are paid for either by advertising or by mandatory memberships that have dues. The price for these memberships are generally only a few dollars a year.

It's hard to pass up the movie download sites that are illegal because they offer a vast amount of content and all for free. Tempting as they are, however, they are illegal, meaning that if you got caught using them, you'll be paying fines like you wouldn't believe, and possibly seeing jail time. That said, the minuscule amount of money you pay for the legal sites doesn't seem so bad. - 40727

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