Bootleg or illegal movie downloads are often cracked down heavily by the Motion Pictures Producers' Association (MPAA) often threatening you with law suits and heavy penalties. Many Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and softwares like Napster were shut down, and for free movie lovers it dealt a serious blow.
Well these days, they are back in force and in new shape. With the possibilities provided by high speed internet networks and unlimited cheap data storage, today you can practically find any movie, new or old, and even those yet to be released on the internet. Bootleg movies have always been a favourite, and they come in various favours.
The simplest way traditionally has been to go into a movie theatre with your camcorder, and record a whole movie and put it up on the internet, after modifying its format to a downloadable one. In some cases, the quality is poor, but in a great many instances they are watch able and done semi-professionally by people who know how to. There are several groups active on the internet who posts these releases, and within hours various networks, torrent sites all start sharing these.
The second group is derived form DVDs, often before release. Generally it is an insider job, who have access to the pre-mastered DVD before official release, and are called pre-DVD releases. In some instances these come from DVDs which the producers have prepared for special screening for award purposes, and are of excellent quality. Remember that these are made available months before commercial release in many instances.
DVD-rips form the third group, after DVDs have been commercially released. Usually they are re-encoded into files about one-sixth the size of normal DVDs with the use of special movie codecs based on MPEG-4 and DivX, allowing quick and easy downloads. With special software often available on movie download websites, these movies can be burnt onto CDs and DVDs again.
There are many ways in which these bootlegged movies are available over the internet. One of the most popular methods are torrents which are a newer form of sharing software that depend on users having copies of the movie on their hard-drives and staying connected to the internet. However, some torrents take a huge time to be downloaded – sometimes up to a week as it all depends on the number of users retaining the movie on their computers. By comparison the speed of downloading movies from movie download sites which directly link you to servers can be 1 MB/second, or 400 times faster with special accelerators. Compared to the old P2P soft wares this is incredibly fast !
The other way of getting bootlegged movies is joining Internet Relay Chat using special software to connect other movie file sharers. Again, this is a cumbersome method taking many hours for a single movie, but one advantage is that because it does not involve the use of internet addresses, it is a safe method of exchanging movie files compared to P2P soft wares. The other problem is that there is no search facility and it can take many hours searching for a particular title.
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The real secret to using P2P for downloading movies online safely via file sharing is to use an "IP Blocker" like Peer Gaurdian to keep the peering eyes that you do not want to see what you are doing from peering, including my old uncle from sam.
Then all you have to worry about is the potential for spyware and virus infection. They have invented applications that will protect your PC from them as well. That and the users of the Torrent sites usually leave comments indicating if there are any problems with a download, if you can trust them. As far as the slowness of the Torrent sites? There is an eight hour period of the day that usually passes by pretty fast when my PC could be working hard at downloading very slowly for free. Disclaimer - Of course, I do not have any of those downloads on my PC. That would be illegal...
Bootlegging is stealing. Not only is it illegal it is also immoral. The lowest form of life is a thief. Watching a movie is a luxury and if you can't afford to pay for it then you don't need to do it. When you do wrong then it comes back to you tenfold.
It may be illegal, but bootlegging is not thieving. If a person records a video on a digital camera while they are sitting inside of a theater, they are not actually stealing any physical item, they are recording a series of 1's and 0's as binary data to the camera's flash memory. There was never any physical object stolen. The theater did not lose any profits since the person paid for tickets too.
Do IP Blockers really work? I always wondered if there was a way to protect your computer from the government. I didn't think there was a way, but I really hope for the people who download the occasional movie, it is low on the governments priority and radar. I don't consider it stealing, more like renting for free. If I really want to see a movie or really like a movie, I buy it or see it in the theater.
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I always surprised if there was a way to protect your computer. but there was a way thats why people watch movies online, it is low on the governments priority and radar. I don't consider it as stealing. People just do for their enjoy. I think nothing is bad in this.
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