Friday, September 10, 2010

Movie Download Sites Have Many Styles

By Gary Santana

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.

When I say they are paid for by advertisements, I don't mean that you get the occasional pop up or there's a banner on the home page. These sites are littered with ads that cover the majority of the page. Going back to the fact that you have to have a strong enough computer to get the full quality of the video, these advertisements suck up some of that power. So you need that much more power just to compensate for that.

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.

Your best bet for downloading movies is through legal sites that either require membership or are otherwise paid for. These sites, since they are paid for, offer a greater deal of movies and at much higher quality. Above all else, these sites are legal, meaning there are no criminal consequences to using them. It may seem easier to not pay for movies, but for what it's worth, these are safer.

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 no question that movie download sites are incredibly convenient, and the prospect of being free is enticing. Their convenience is worth the investment, but being free is not. Look at it this way: by paying a minute amount of money, you are able to view endless video content as long and often as you want. If you get caught downloading illegally, you'll pay thousands in fines, so it's infinitely more expensive. - 40729

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