Free Film Downloading

oldandintheway

I have just changed over to broadband and am still at the hoeymoon stage, ie
clicking on allmost anything but as my main intrest is tv and films I have been
checking out the FREE tv and free movie downloads etc.
My question is, are these actually free or am I likely to have a heart attack
when the bill arrives?

kensutz

Depends on what you're looking at, where you're looking at and if they're legit or not.

Sparky

any sites that involve recent tv shows that are downloadable for free are most likly illegal

philologos

usenext isnt is it?
www.usenext.de

Basq

Now that's a bad noob!

Karoma

basquille wrote:

Now that's a bad noob!

now,why do i have an image of you grabbing it by the snout and rubbing it's nose in it... damn.i'm strangely aroused...

oldandintheway: where did you download them from..?

aubhall

oldandintheway wrote:

I have just changed over to broadband and am still at the hoeymoon stage, ie
clicking on allmost anything but as my main intrest is tv and films I have been
checking out the FREE tv and free movie downloads etc.
My question is, are these actually free or am I likely to have a heart attack
when the bill arrives?

If you want to stay legit goto good old archive.org try this for
640 free legal feature films
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films

Sparky

Jakkass wrote:

usenext isnt is it?
www.usenext.de

Oh its just a hidden news group that you pay money to access, every piece of information inside it is 99.9% illegal.
the .1% is maybe the few Linux distros in there.
I done a free trial and cancelled

Sparky

aubhall wrote:

If you want to stay legit goto good old archive.org try this for
640 free legal feature films
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films

Cheers for that link, some films on there my dad would love to have

ricey

Time to Find bittorrent n00b http://www.bittorrentguide.co.uk/

+ new to brodband then watch you download cap!

ghostdancer

to answer your question: yes, they are free, but illegal.

no, you won't have a heart attack when the bill comes most likely unless you've downloaded alot more data over your monthly transfer allowance, and even then it's highly unlikely that your ISP will charge you.

if you were under the impression that what (and not how much) you download will affect what you get charged, then you've an awful lot to learn about the internet in general.

philologos

usenext.de is legal

kmurph

Usenet itself is just a means of communication over the Internet and has actually been around an awful lot longer than the WWW that we all know and love.

However, a lot of the material that you may find in the alt.binaries.* hierarchy is copyrighted material being posted without the permission of the copyright owner and therefore illegal.

But there's an awful lot more to Usenet and it's a fantastic way to talk about pretty much any subject under the sun.

oldandintheway

Thank you all for your help.

I found one wonderful film streaming site (legal) which
has films from the American south. Alan lomax and Delta Blues as well
as a lot of really great stuff relating to folklore etc.
Folkstreams. net.:D

Yellow Dog

I would also like to download some movies.

I have been downloading music from alloffmp3.com which I am told is legal.

Is there a similar site for movies?

I would prefer to pay a reasonable price for a reasonable service rather than pay nothing for a bad and illegal service.

dub45

oldandintheway wrote:

Thank you all for your help.

I found one wonderful film streaming site (legal) which
has films from the American south. Alan lomax and Delta Blues as well
as a lot of really great stuff relating to folklore etc.
Folkstreams. net.:D

thanks for that site:)

Fighting Irish

Yellow Dog wrote:

I would also like to download some movies.

I have been downloading music from alloffmp3.com which I am told is legal.

Is there a similar site for movies?

I would prefer to pay a reasonable price for a reasonable service rather than pay nothing for a bad and illegal service.

there is nowhere you can pay to download movies and if there is the movies are illegally being sold

garthv

I have been downloading music from alloffmp3.com which I am told is legal.

Its not legal, its just a loophole in russian law, that site will be shut down soon.

zuma

Yellow Dog wrote:

I would also like to download some movies.

I have been downloading music from alloffmp3.com which I am told is legal.

Is there a similar site for movies?

I would prefer to pay a reasonable price for a reasonable service rather than pay nothing for a bad and illegal service.

alloffmp3.com is legal, atm, within Russian borders...but as you may have noticed Ireland is not part of Russia.

Essentially you are breaking the law and your only excuse, if IRMA come knocking, is ignorance.

BopNiblets

Public Domain torrents.

Saw this posted around a while ago, oldies but goldies.

Peanut

GaRtH_V wrote:

Its not legal, its just a loophole in russian law, that site will be shut down soon.

How do you know?

aubhall

If you want legal (uptodate) mp3 downloads goto www.wippit.com approx 75 euro a year and if you stop after a year you keep your mp3s.


As for movies, I have not come across any upto date legal site that service europe yet. The nearest I can find is www.cinemanow.com which has a 24hour timebomb on downloads or streams. The only thing close is www.movieflix.com which need realplayer.

Sparky

or if your a sky movies subscriber, you can download film (that sky show) and play them on your pc for 29days.

halenger

Peanut wrote:

How do you know?

This quote might clarify it's status for you...

piracy@irma.ie wrote:

www.allofmp3.com is an illegal site.

The music industry is working with the authorities in Russia in order to
take this site down but I'm afraid we are not in a position to offer any
details at this stage. On the more practical side of things, Paypal has
withdrawn its facilities from allofmp3.com and we are working with the
principal credit cards companies helping them to understand the site's
unauthorised nature. Amex has been understanding and helpful and we hope
that Visa will take appropriate action, though that is of course a matter
for Visa to decide.

Peanut

halenger wrote:

This quote might clarify it's status for you...

Interesting..
I'm well aware of it's status, however I think it's rather unlikely that it's going to close down anytime soon.

The amount of cash it's making must be phenomenal - for the Russian authorities to suddenly stop this and bow to Western pressure isn't something they'd be in a hurry to do I imagine.

Also the fact that the RIAA etc. rarely mention it, seems to me that they're aware that there's not much they can do about it at the moment, and highlighting it in the media would only give it more coverage.

(Needless to say, "it's an illegal site" is an oversimplification, it still appears to be legal in Russia at least. If it was such a simple case then they would not need to be lobbying the credit card companies as much as they have been.)

(edit: linky http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/07/allofmp3-com_let_off/)