Sunday, May 23, 2010

It Is True, People Really Do Download Internet Movies Online

By Dolly Odonnell

It is relatively easy to download internet movies. Though you will likely find that many places that offer the service do so by offering pirated versions of the movies, not every single site does this. Some places offer the movies for a modest fee or, sometimes, for a large fee. Some are free and legal, but those tend to be harder to find in the current incarnation of the internet.

Some people are more tech savvy than others, so it may come as a surprise that anyone that has some knowledge of the internet can probably handle downloading videos. Many sites make it easy for you to go in, search for what you want, and then they will tell you how to download them.

The most common way of downloading will be through a peer to peer network. These are also known as P2P networks. P2P means that you will connect to another users computer and get the file directly from them. This allows your computer to act as a server for other people who are downloading as well, as you can upload the videos while simultaneously downloading them.

The way that most sites work these days are to provide what are called "torrents." Torrents are small files that you can download very quickly from an internet site. You then open the torrent in a torrent reading program. The torrent will tell the program where to go to connect to the media that you want to download. The program will connect to that media and begin the upload/download process.

Some sites are working on ways to make deals with movie companies to sell movies via downloads. The digitalization of video is likely going to be a big market in the years to come. The problem is in maintaining the security of movies once they have been digitized. Once something exists in cyberspace it is virtually impossible to make sure that it won't continue to spread throughout the rest of the web.

Selling them online is probably going to be necessary as anyone with a computer with a DVD ripper can get it onto their computer. Once the movie is on the computer, it is very easy to get it online to start sharing it with others. People will offer these movies for free to try to get traffic to their websites in order to sell more advertising space and make money that way.

Due to the violation of copy write laws by sites like this, governments have tried to get internet service providers to be their police. Sometimes internet service providers will discover that movies have been illegally downloaded from a certain IP address and send the owner of the IP a letter asking them to delete what they downloaded and not download anything more. They may not be reporting the download to any other agency, but the letters do prove that people do pay attention to what is being downloaded on the internet.

Anyone who wants to download internet movies can do so. You probably won't get into any trouble if you do so, but it is still best to check the credentials of any site that you do want to use if you are concerned about getting bootlegged media.

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