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The Legal Use Of P2P Movie Downloads



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he legal use of P2P movie       illegal is the use of such        
downloads is currently          software to download movies and   
under scrutiny, as the          music) that is protected by       
movie companies bare their teeth      copyright, and that includes just 
and growl. However, they are a        about every commercial movie      
bit like toothless dogs, who can      currently available online.

   
bark but whose bites are next to      

However, there are many movies 
useless as a weapon.                  that are legal to download        
At the moment the illegal use of      because they are now in the       
P2P file sharing software to          public domain. Included among     
download copyrighted movies           these are: 20,000 Leagues Under   
outnumbers legal downloads by         the Sea (1916), Bloodlust (1961), 
around 5 to 1. There is very          Charade (1963), Cyrano de         
little likelihood of an               Bergerac (1950), the 1940 Flash   
individual being prosecuted for       Gordon series, Gulliver’s Travels 
doing so for personal use,            (1939), Hercules (1958) and Sons  
although they are taking more of      of Hercules (1963), Two Women     
chance if they are downloading        (1960), The 39 Steps (1935),      
with the intention of selling the     Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and 
pirated movies.

                   McClintock! (1963).

           

Much has been written about        

There are thousands more, but  
the distinction between legal and     you won’t find any current        
illegal downloads, and this           blockbusters among them. However, 
distinction is still not fully        it is debatable whether or not    
understood. In fact there is no       movies broadcast on TV should be  
such thing as an ‘illegal             any more illegal to download than 
download site’ since peer-to-peer     to video them. The major problem  
file sharing is not illegal.          that the movie companies are      
Hence, the software that allows       facing are illegal downloads of   
it is also not illegal. What IS       newly released movies by people   



that mass produce copies and sell     to download and burn a movie onto 
them illegally. It is not so much     a DVD they will. You can legally  
the schoolkids downloading a          download movies now, but the file 
movie to watch on their computers     disappears from your computer     
– although the movie companies        after a while. Who wants to pay   
will disagree with that.

          good money for that when you can  

If P2P file sharing is such a      download to a DVD for free?

   
problem to them, why don’t the        

The movie companies had better 
movie companies get together and      get their act together before     
offer their own P2P registration      somebody develops a P2P system    
system? That way nobody could         that is totally invisible to      
complain that there was no            them. Then they will really be in 
alternative. This is now              trouble. In the meantime most     
happening with music, so why not      download sites do not advocate    
movies? Or are the movie              that you download copyright       
companies so Neanderthal that         materials, although it is         
they are unable to break into the     sometimes difficult to tell if    
21st century? A legal membership      you need a license or not.

    
site would seem a logical answer,     

Others, on the other hand,     
and on payment of a fee you could     falsely state that the use of     
use the service legally as you        their sites to download current   
currently use file sharing            movies is legal. All file sharing 
services to download                  sites are legal – it is the way   
illegally.

                        that some people use them that is 

It is unlikely that we will        not. The legal use of P2P movie  
see such a thing, however, and        downloads can bring thousands of  
even Bittorrent’s negotiations        movies back to life that have     
with the big movie makers look        seen their day, but are wonderful 
like they will take years to          movies nevertheless.

          
finalize, at least to enable you      

Many of these are now          



practically unobtainable, except      "pub-8542272527121315";           
for their existence on the hard                                       
drives of true P2P file sharing                                         
software users from which              google_alternate_ad_url =   
everybody in the network can          "http://www.isnare.com/adsense-al 
download and legally enjoy them.      t-728x90.php";                    
Sophia Loren was fantastic in the                                       
1960 movie ‘Two Women’, and the        google_ad_width = 728;      
Hitchcock 1935 version of The 39                                        
steps with Robert Donat is still       google_ad_height = 90;      
considered the definitive and                                           
best ever version. Both are            google_ad_format =          
legally downloadable free using       "728x90_as";                      
file sharing software.

                                              
                                       google_ad_type = "text";    
border-color: #FFFFFF;                                                  
background-color: #F5F7FB;             google_color_border =       
border-left: #BAC9FF 1px solid;       "F5F7FB";                         
border-right: #BAC9FF 1px solid;                                        
margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom:        google_color_bg = "F5F7FB"; 
10px;" valign="top"                                                     
align="center">                        google_color_link =         
                                      "0000FF";                         
type="text/javascript">                                                    
                                      
                      
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About the Author:

If you want more information of file sharing software that can be used to download movies online, then check out Pete’s site Online Free Movies where alternative download sites are offered, and the ethics and mechanics of downloading free movies are discussed.

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