Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Many Movie Download Sites That Are Out There

By Adam Zamora

Above all else, movie download sites are illegal, because they offer free content that should otherwise be paid for. There are some that offer legal content, but the main idea behind these websites is to offer free, illegal content to its users. In the end, it is best that they be avoided.

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.

The illegal methods should be avoided, because of the penalties for using them. Luckily, there are legal methods for downloading movies: sites that are paid for either by membership dues or advertisements. They are more likely to offer better quality movies and (the best part) they're completely legal and the dues that you pay (for the membership sites) aren't all that much in the long run.

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.

Movie download sites come in many different forms, but the ones that are most recommended are the legal ones. The fines and criminal label that will follow you from illegal downloading is too much of a risk to take. When you think about it, it's only a few bucks a year for all the movies you want. That's a lot better than thousands of dollars in fines and lesser quality movies.

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