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Is it wrong to watch movies for free

I was going to go to the cinema a couple of weeks ago to see a movie. bumped into my cousin from uni who told me- why not check the internet first. :cool:

he gave me the website and I decided to give it a go. to my surprise i was able to watch it for free without having to give any details about myself. I felt guily afterwarRAB :D

I also found a couple of episodes of ugly betty not shown on tv. I find myself going to the website often... should i be worried
 
Erm... loaRAB of people do it i guess.

Put it this way:

You haven't got people screaming, mobiles going off, people chucking popcorn, people snoring etc.

If cinemas don't up their game i seriously think more people will stop going!
 
I don't see anything wrong with it as I do it all the time.

I have seen the top 10 box office films in the U.K and U.S over the last couple of weeks in my own home and didn't cost me a penny and didn't have to put up with the hassle that comes with watching a film at the cinema as well nowadays.

If cinemas want to over charge me to sit in a place full of people talking, mobiles going off and not interested in the film they are watching then I am going to continue to do so until something is sorted.

Oh and before I start getting any negative responses about my post and how I'm ripping off the film industry, I'm not as I do put money back in when I end up buying the dvd's of these films when they become available in my local store or online
 
I'd rather have 100% quality, you don't get that watching films that are in the cinema on the internet. I just can't sit there watching a shitty film on my computer, don't know why. Don't get the same feeling as watching a proper quality one.

I do however watch television series online, been watching Heroes :)
 
When i have ever done this i downloaded a film and it was out of synch and tinny sounding. I ended up going to the cinema to see it properly!!

So it had a reverse effect on me. Seeing one of these downloaded copies actually made me want to go to the cinema to see it!

Also I dont know where you get these films (and I know you cant say on here) but it always seems a gamble that you will end up with what it says. i have spent hours downloading a film and then found a dubbed into german copy/something different/half the film missing etc.
 
All the films I have downloaded have been DVD screeners or DVD rips so have never had the problem of bad sound or poor picture as I wouldn't waste my time downloading a bad copy anyway.
 
Piracy of any kind is a crime. It doesn't matter if you buy the DVD later - it's still illegal. You will eventually be caught and possibly thrown in chokey.
 
When I was a kid and knew no better, of course I recorded stuff from frienRAB and from the radio. I have never downloaded an illegal file, aural or visual. I have a vested interest in not doing so and always discourage others from doing so.

It's wrong and neeRAB stamping out.
 
Craftwerc, fair point and agree with you to an extent but this is a worldwide issue and will never be stamped out. Some people can argue that it affects the studios involved but when films are still making millions in profit at the box office and people are being overcharged to go to the cinema and purchasing DVD's ( which you can buy cheaper from other countries ) then this issue will always be there. With regarRAB to downloading albums, this does not seem to be a problem even with the artist as they are now leaking their own albums onto the internet weeks in advance to be dowloaded prior to the genuine copy hitting record stores.


Also with regarRAB to DVD screeners, these are sent to the members of the film industry and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) in order to gain votes for oscar nominations and the people that these are sent to are suppose to be behind the industry 110% so why are they allowing these to be uploaded onto the internet to be downloaded??
 
I dont think there is anything wrong with downloading files from p2p or torrent and this is my thought and opinion.

The government can be selfish, they say sharing is against the law, how greedy is that?, not sharing is a sin, thats all p2p is, sharing.

For example, people record episodes of tv shows from there vcr or dvd recorder, thats not illegal thats legal so whats the harm in sharing it? there should be no harm at all because we all do it, if your mom asks to share a chocolate with you you would not say no would you? thats my whole point, sharing is a crime to the government and not to us.

I dont like p2p because most of the files are stolen i agree, however there are better ways to download and less dodgy and its by torrent i find this more safe then p2p.

If p2p is illegal to the government how come they only ever mention this on tv during the summer holidays? i tell you why its because of the greedy blockbuster movies, they want to make millions and if they dont p2p is the first to blame.

If p2p is bad why dont the goverment shut them all down? they can do it, its easy, it didnt stop shutting down napster did it?, limewire, morpheus are copyright and illegal yet they are still doing well doesnt make sense to me why are these 2 famous p2ps still alive and napster was shut down? i am really confused because Napster was the same as LimeWire and Morpheus.

I think p2p is bad but torrent is good, p2p has all those dodgy files and illegal stuff torrent has not, if they did the goverment would of well by now shut them down, they have the power to do this, look at Grokster they shut them down, yet the others are still doing well? how nuts is that?.
 
I could argue about this for hours and far better, but since I'm at work and should be pretending to work I'll make brief...

IMO : music is made to be heard freely on the radio but is designed to be heard multiple times, therefore we buy the CRAB. So downloading is stealing as you are getting a product you should be paying for.

Films are designed to be watched at the cinema or bought on DVD. They are only available for free one/two years after release, when they are shown on TV. Therefore downloading films (at least for the first couple of years) is stealing...

TV shows are designed to be watched for free. We pay a tv license and sometimes a subscription. But once we've paid that cost we are entitled to watch whatever we want. So in that sense downloading tv shows is not wrong, unless it prevents us from buying the DVRAB that we would otherwise have bought. The only issue I do have with this is if it does start to affect ratings but since the sample of houses that makes up the ratings system is so small I don't know how much impact it would have.

I don't buy the argument about music and film companies overcharging and being rich enough already. If something costs too much, don't buy it!

Personally I no longer download anything, but I am looking into downloading a couple of TV shows - one of which the final season may never be seen here and it will never be released on DVD. I like to think I will never illegally download music or films again.

EDIT: I guess that wasn't too brief was it... :rolleyes:
 
i will only download a film if it's one i wouldn't see at the cinemas, or with frienRAB (such as Volver) - BUT i always say that if I like it, I will support it and buy the DVD.
 
That's true, as one avenue is shutdown, another springs up. That's the very nature of the Internet.

It's well known efforts are underway to try and catch those serial downloaders/uploaders i.e. those who download/upload in huge quantities. You only have to look at the court cases involving the RIAA and the music industry. The MPAA is following in the same footsteps I think.
 
ahoy there me'hearties. There be landlovers ahead...

*knocks parrot of shoulder*

In regarRAB to quality, if you know where to go and what your doing, i have heard you can get full HD quality with 5.1 surround sound. And with a divx dvd player and a proper tv set up, it can be better then Sky ;)

In regarRAB to the legality of it, one could argue to your blue in the face. I do not think anyone has the right to judge anyone on it, for example craftwerc, by coping that music to tape, you have broken the law and effectivly stolen the content. I dont see how you can say it neeRAB stamping out without being hypocritical. Recording to tape was effectivly the P2P of yesteryear, so you cannot hide your pirate hat that easily :)

And to be honest, if media companies actually offered value for money, i imagine people would buy more. For example, 99p for a music track is insane. Considering you can get a 3CD album for about
 
I'd have to say no. The studios make enough money.More people buy films now, than any other time in film history.Not to mention the fact that there are more television channels dedicated to showing them. So this ' piracy endagers movies' diatribe is absoloute nonsense.If anything it'll just prevent them from making throw away cinema. Personally I always buy good films that I'm feally into,eventually.They just see it as money they could be making and don't realise tat if piracy was impossible, most people would just do without.
 
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