Legal Movies Download: Are Your Membership Downloads Illegal?
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by: MarcSandford
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Safety and ethics are the primary motivations for a lot people that look for legal sources of movie downloads. However, you may be making illegal downloads of movies by accident even though your intentions might be in the right place. Therefore, you may be placing your privacy and computer at risk through exposure to spy ware and viruses that may accompany these downloads.
It isn't enough to stay away from amateurish and spammy download sites. It's possible that you're getting movies illegally even though you're using a legitimate download membership at a professionally deigned web site. It can still happen even if the business owner has honest intentions and you have paid a membership fee.
So how does this come about? If the membership site asks for modest a fee of about $25 in exchange for access to a ridiculous quantity of movies (millions), then he's probably setting you up with the means for downloading and accessing movies off a peer to peer (p2p) file sharing network. Because the number of downloads to be had from p2p is enormous, he really is telling the truth and you are getting value for your money if you previously lacked the means and knowledge to use p2p networks.
When you know enough about using p2p to get yourself into trouble, the problems begin. The stage is set for damaging your computer with a virus or suffering from identity theft because of spy ware if you use p2p naively without an awareness of the associated risks. Unbeknownst to you, those movies that you're happily downloading were uploaded illegally.
Don't expect to get 100 percent protection from all of the viruses in p2p networks with your anti-virus program. Your computer is only protected against the specific viruses and spy ware that the anti-virus software was programmed to recognize. Your anti-virus program will not protect your computer from new, obscure, or modified viruses.
The only rule of thumb for knowing whether or not a movie is legal for download, is that if it is a very old movie (preferably in black and white) then it is probably in the public domain and is therefore legal. A movie is illegal to download if it is a recent Hollywood blockbuster and if you find it for free on a p2p network. A lot research will be required if you'd like to find the exceptions to this rule of thumb.
So it is not exactly a relaxed and effortless affair to download movies that are safe and legal. You aren't enjoying yourself if you're constantly worried about threats to your computer and your personal information. Researching the copyrights of movies isn't exactly entertainment either.
Perhaps it's time to look around for a real movie download site that guarantees safe and legal downloads and has nothing to do with p2p networks. A movie download membership that sets you up with p2p cannot make any guarantees about safety or legality. If you are downloading movies from p2p file sharing networks, you are on your own.
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Check up on my review of two well known legal movie download web sites. One has a great movie selection because of it's ties with some of the big Hollywood heavy hitters. The other does not. If you are searching for legal movie downloads, this inside look will help.
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