Any good Movie download sites

[LD1]

Personally, after paying rental, I don't lose too much sleep about putting it on my computer.

I agree with you 100% there, but from a legal standpoint, that is no different than pirating.

Dont get me wrong, I aint accusing you. But I am looking for a legal alternative to using a VPN and downloading torrents, that is also affordable.

Perhaps one dont exist. Perhaps thats why VPN's specifically geared toward torrent downloaders have boomed? I think we arent too far away though, from affordable downloads of movies. They are really cracking down on the pirated stuff now (thus the VPN boom). But IMO, most doing the pirating, arent costing the "industry" anything. Because those doing the pirating arent going to buy the movie anyway, like myself.

ITs either sell me a download for under $5, or I wont ever watch the movie (until it comes out on cable years later). So I think that is where I am at. Until downloads are affordable, I will be a few years behind on current good movies....

 

[Egbert]

"either sell me a download for under $5, or I wont ever watch the movie"

Exactly.

I knew this guy who downloaded hundreds of movies. Had he not been able to get them online, he would have never gone to see them. First, because the admission to theaters is almost criminal. Secondly, because there is always some clown in the theater who thinks you need to hear their idiotic comments for 2 hours. This guy, after finding movies he liked, would actually go out and buy them for his library - so the industry ultimately made money that would otherwise have never been realized.

Using something like Roku, or any device that is Internet connected, you can watch quite a few free movies. They're not first tier to be sure - but they are FREE

"I" am still waiting for that time you can call Dish and say I want channels X Y & Z - nothing else, no packages, no junk. I could get by with about a dozen channels if I could just pick them individually.

 

[LD1]

"I" am still waiting for that time you can call Dish and say I want channels X Y & Z - nothing else, no packages, no junk. I could get by with about a dozen channels if I could just pick them individually.

Amen to that.

I have over 200 channels:thumbsup:

I watch less than 20 of them.

4 local channels, TBS, His, USA, TNT, ESPN, espn2, abcfam, disc, AE, Spike, scifi, bravo, amc, BTN, nat geo, fx, sci and mil.

Well I guess thats 22 of em if you count locals, and a few for the kids. Just went through the programmed favorites. Those are the only ones I ever watch. And if paying for the channels individually, I could probably knock it down a few, cause some I only watch every once in awhile.

I can certainly do without the shopping channels, spanish channels, etc.

It would also just be nice to have cable and only get the local channels, and then pay per program on all the others. so if I am thumbing through and see something I like, and stay on that channel, only get billed for that:thumbsup: But they bundle all this crap in and makes me wonder who actually watches some of the shows:confused2:

I know I have helped the ratings on some of the spanish shows though:mur:. Laying in bed and thumbing through, only to wake up at 2 in the morning to a spanish show on TV:laughing:

 

[Egbert]

"I know I have helped the ratings on some of the spanish shows though. Laying in bed and thumbing through, only to wake up at 2 in the morning to a spanish show on TV"

Come on now - we're all friends

You were watching LaRaza political commentary. Admit it. LOL

 

[adirondackmtnman]

You were watching LaRaza political commentary. Admit it. LOL

I can't speak a lick of spanish, but every once in a while my wife'll catch me watching 'Sabado Gigante';-)

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[MossRoad]

I guess that makes me question why they are so expensive to actual buy the download? Cutting out the hard material disc, transportation, logistics, store, etc. A download really dont cost them anything to let me do it??

I am sure they have smarter people than be deciding on a pricepoint. But it seems to me they are loosing customers. For under $100 per year, someone can use a good VPN and pirate all they want. THAT is really what they are competing with. And for $15+ per download, people are opting for the VPN/torrent. But if they sold the downloads for ~$5, it makes less sense to do the illegal thing. Save the VPN fees to buy 15-20 movies a year. Only difference is where that $100 per year goes. A VPN administrator? or the Movie industry.

I think most that pirate movies (and I have done a TON of reading), only do so cause there isnt a good affordable alternative like itunes did for music. And the people using VPN's and pirating would rather pay a few bucks a movie to the movie industry instead of a VPN. But again, that is just the tone I get from reading various other forums on the topic.

Well.... the cost isn't in the DVD. The cost is in paying all the royalties on the movie. That's why the price still costs on a digital download. And most that pirate movies do not do so 'cause there isn't a good affordable alternative". They do it because they are thieves that are trying to justify there criminal actions. Plain and simple. "I don't think I should have to pay that much for a product, so that justifies me stealing it" just doesn't fly in the moral court. :dance1:

 

[LD1]

Not saying your right or wrong moss. But speaking as someone who has pirated before, and seeking to do the morally correct thing, I can attest for me it was because there were no affordable alternatives. And had pirating not been available, I would have done without. So my actions didn't cost anyone any royalties.

We all have and are entitled to our opinions on the matter. But you make a blanket statement that pirating is wrong, how do you feel about sharing hard copies? Have you ever borrowed or loaned out a CD or dvd ? IMO, the only difference is pirating is tracable and can be proven.

 

[cqaigy2]

Not saying your right or wrong moss. But speaking as someone who has pirated before, and seeking to do the morally correct thing, I can attest for me it was because there were no affordable alternatives. And had pirating not been available, I would have done without. So my actions didn't cost anyone any royalties.

We all have and are entitled to our opinions on the matter. But you make a blanket statement that pirating is wrong, how do you feel about sharing hard copies? Have you ever borrowed or loaned out a CD or dvd ? IMO, the only difference is pirating is tracable and can be proven.

But it isn't ok to break the law if one doesn't agree with it and one isn't smart enough to understand how one's action could possible hurt anyone, along with the attitude of convenient morality isn't something a person would want to teach their children.

The above statement isn't pointed at LD1, I don't think he is an amoral person, just the opposite and i am not a perfect person that has never done something that im not proud of.

 

[MossRoad]

Not saying your right or wrong moss. But speaking as someone who has pirated before, and seeking to do the morally correct thing, I can attest for me it was because there were no affordable alternatives. And had pirating not been available, I would have done without. So my actions didn't cost anyone any royalties.

We all have and are entitled to our opinions on the matter. But you make a blanket statement that pirating is wrong, how do you feel about sharing hard copies? Have you ever borrowed or loaned out a CD or dvd ? IMO, the only difference is pirating is tracable and can be proven.

I made a blanket statement that is correct. Pirating is wrong. I didn't say I never did anything wrong myself. Everyone makes choices, and when we make wrong choices (myself included) we have to justify it somehow to ourselves. From rolling stop signs to stealing cars is a huge jump. Both are wrong, but both are not equal in severity to most folks. But what if you intentionally roll a stop sign and unintentionally kill someone? Yikes! Anyhow, pirating a movie is pirating a movie, and that's theft. Buying a DVD and loaning it to a friend is another form of pirating in some cases, depending on the legal things you agree to when you buy it. And that's theft. Just because we don't feel its a big theft doesn't mean its not a theft. Does it bother us? Probably not. Should it? Probably so, because this is what's wrong with America today. Little wrongs are still wrongs and no justification makes them rights. I ain't perfect. Not claiming to be. Just pointing out that wrong is still wrong even if we ignore it. Claiming that pirating a movie was the correct thing to do because you saw no affordable alternative for entertainment doesn't cut it. Stealing a pack of gum at the store because it was a dollar and I think it should be 75 cents? That's very similar, isn't it? Just because we don't agree on the price of an item doesn't give us the justification to just go ahead and take it, does it? The alternative is to tell the person that we think their product is priced too high and not purchase it, not just go ahead and take it. Again, I am just a guilty as many other folks about these kinds of issues. Just throwing it out there for discussion, not judgment. Once we stop being bothered by little wrongs what happens? Bigger wrongs don't look as big. Moral compass is always spinning. Sometimes its hard to get it to point in the right direction. But if we ignore it, we stay off course. Actions and consequences. We commit actions, and there are consequences. We pick and choose. :confused3:

 

[JasperFrank]

Its is the distributors fault, if there is pirating. A thing I thought was brilliant with the "Orville" Sci-fi series, was if you waited long enough, they put the series on line for free with ads. I of course, could have downloaded the episodes off a Torrent site. But you know... you can do things the right way, by just waiting, till the episode was on their site to stream with ads.
There you go.
They get two incomes, on the same content, and you get to watch for free, legally, just a few months later.
If I had to pay for "Discovery," or "Picard," on a first run subscriber based view, I would have been very pissed off.
Netfix and YouTube fill evey need we have for entertainment. Well, sometimes Dailymotion, till something is taken down.