Monday, July 26, 2010

Movie Download Sites Have Many Forms

By Tara Tillman

When looking for movie download sites, it's important to note that the majority of them are illegal. They are designed to offer movies for free when they should, in some way, be paid for. There are legal ones, however, and they are the ones that are much more highly recommended.

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.

The legal versions are the ones with all the advertisements. And the term "all" refers to the fact that there are, in fact, a great deal of them. Usually, you'll have to watch the video next to five other advertisements on the page. These advertisements also reduce overall video quality and make the movie take that much longer to load because there is usually a lot that your computer has to load, making the requirement on your computers part that much greater.

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.

Like their illegal cousins, these sites come in streaming and downloading forms. You'll be able to watch these movies directly on their sites or download them onto your computer. The memberships are generally in the form of monthly or yearly dues that you have to pay in return for endless content.

It's hard to pass up the movie download sites that are illegal because they offer a vast amount of content and all for free. Tempting as they are, however, they are illegal, meaning that if you got caught using them, you'll be paying fines like you wouldn't believe, and possibly seeing jail time. That said, the minuscule amount of money you pay for the legal sites doesn't seem so bad. - 2361

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