Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Why Illegal Film Downloads Are Not Worth Using

By Freddy Stenson

Even though choosing legal movie downloads will cost you a few bucks, choosing illegal or unlicensed movie downloads could end up costing you a heck of a lot more in fines and court costs.

Moreover, although you will incur costs for legal movie downloads, they are minimal as compared to the price you'll pay for DVD's or store rentals at your local Blockbuster store. Not only that, but the fact is that if you use file sharing sites to download your illegal movies, you infringe on the copyright laws of the owners of the productions.

Shockingly, more than six million households in America have downloaded from an illegal movie download sites within the past 60 days alone. Most of these downloads are videos that have adult related content and often, people have used a Peer to Peer (P2P) site to download these movies from.

These sites are often scrupulous and you cannot be assured of any kind of quality from the video that you may be downloading.

Sharing an active connection with a stranger's computer will open up your system to a world of viruses and the worst part is that you might be downloading a file that is designed to steal private information from your system.

Justice is not completely absent, with many offenders who are guilty of downloading movies illegally being brought to task. This is possible thanks to the ability to track anyone on the internet through the Internet Service Provider (ISP), which can pinpoint the exact location of the computer that was used to access the internet.

However, the agencies that track these offenders will not catch just about anyone due to the complication of the entire process. Often times, the will track a person who is downloading thousands of movies and reselling them in the market, trying to make an example out of them and hopefully preventing people from doing the same thing at their homes.

More and more now a day you hear of a movie studio suing an individual who has downloaded their copyrighted material from an illegal movie file sharing site. When you choose the legal method you'll have the comfort of knowing that you're not infringing on those copyright laws, and can enjoy them over and over again.

One of the minor downsides of using a legal movie download site is that there tend to be less of a selection of movies available to the end user. With fewer legal movie download sites around, as opposed to the illegal file sharing sites, your choices to find one that can accommodate your needs for price and terms of agreement will be limited as well. However, there are enough legal sites out there, with more popping up everyday that you're sure to find one within the price range that you are willing to pay.

Just like with other illegal activities, free downloading too will grow over time with more people getting access to high speed internet. In fact, many people will learn about the phenomenon and spread it to others, which will consequently keep rising until pretty much everyone is aware of it.

In fact, it is like finding that special deal in the supermarket, the euphoric feeling is echoed when you get your favorite movie for absolutely no cost. Hence, you can probably go the wrong way and download movies illegally or simply pay a small amount and get it from a trusted and authentic source. After all, it will help you with your conscience as well.

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