Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Free Movies Online - Legal vs. Illegal

By Kinghort Bishop


Watching a movie online is a very fun experience. Nonetheless, absolutely nothing can typically compare to the top quality of the Blue-ray disc or the DVD (other than the theater expertise obviously) when watching free of charge movies on-line. The idea of 'free movies online' might mean distinct issues to various people. For some, it could mean downloading movies from a pirated movie site and for other people it could mean 'buying' and downloading movies from a legitimate internet site and for some others, it may possibly mean watching bootleg videos.

Videos which are downloaded from legitimate sources fairly usually have the best good quality of video and audio. However, with the video piracy on the rise, the good quality of the videos on the pirated web sites is finding much better at the same time. Earlier, the pirated websites employed to get only the bootlegged copies of the videos that are actually 'good for nothing'! In other words, these 'free movies online' don't provide anything - the video quality is hardly any great and the audio is even worse in most instances. In very literal terms, you are in fact watching a movie of a movie in the sense that the video that was taped in a cinema theater. What you get from a bootlegged copy is a 'second-hand' version of the film itself.

Even though it can be a great practice to download movies only from legitimate web sites, it is becoming increasingly more tempting for internet users to maintain off the pirated web sites which have began offering very good high quality movies at completely no price. The only thing that will possibly maintain folks from flocking to these sites will be the 'moral obligation' to the producers of the movies which seems to be fading away.

Another argument that has been posed by many users who are against the 'pirated' websites is that the support received by the users of the legitimate websites is 100% better than the support received in the illegitimate websites. However, the point to be considered now is that even these websites have started offering the same support and what's more is the fact that these websites are offering these services as well as the videos for FREE! The only way that these websites are generating income is by placing ads by Google and ads by other companies on their websites. It almost seems as though Google is promoting the use of these sites.

The only possible outcome of the entire 'free movies online' situation could be that more and more users will resort to using these illegal sites and download more movies from them. In order to prevent that from happening (if it hasn't already happened) is to educate people about the fair use of media on the internet and the possible outcomes if users get caught in these illegal activities.
Although illegal sites are matching up to the legal sites with respect to the media world, it is still a good practice to make use of the legal websites to watch free movies online. Take the 'higher road' and download free movies online from legal sites!

1 comment:

  1. Unfortunately it is impossible to be protected from piracy online, which is probably the reason for the studios to invest in things like 3D, in which the download experience is very different than the cinema.

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