(legal) movie downloads

buglawton

Do you remember the goody-2-shoes kid at school? Cyber equivalent.

johnnyboyrebel

buglawton wrote: »

Do you remember the goody-2-shoes kid at school? Cyber equivalent.

Too true.

I wish these people who spout on about illegal downloading would join reality and see they are in the minority.

Lum

Much as I hate to admit it, Sky's download service is actually pretty good. It even has a thing to calculate when it's safe to start watching the film even though it's not 100% downloaded.

Needs a Sky box and Sky subscription though, and you wont be burning them to disc, will be keeping them on the Sky box.

johnnyboyrebel

Lum wrote: »

Much as I hate to admit it, Sky's download service is actually pretty good. It even has a thing to calculate when it's safe to start watching the film even though it's not 100% downloaded.

Needs a Sky box and Sky subscription though, and you wont be burning them to disc, will be keeping them on the Sky box.

As in Sky Store? Yes this is good but a bit limited with choice.

Lum

Was referring to the Sky Anytime On Demand service.

johnnyboyrebel

Lum wrote: »

Was referring to the Sky Anytime On Demand service.

Oh yeah there is that too but again, even more limited especially for newer releases.

There should just be a no subscription website where you can go along with your £10.00 and download a newly released movie as wmv, mpeg, flv etc. It will never happen.

esuhl

buglawton wrote: »

Do you remember the goody-2-shoes kid at school? Cyber equivalent.

The funny thing is how hypocritical these moral crusaders seem to be! Their smug pride radiates as they say how they always pay for their music/video... but then they admit to ripping a CD (which is still unlawful).

Either obey copyright law or don't... but don't pretend to be all high and mighty when you're just picking and choosing which laws to obey!

-TangleFoot-

esuhl wrote: »

ripping a CD (which is still unlawful)

Still? They've had twenty years to think about it! :doh:

The first CD ripper was CD-GRAB, written by A.L. Digital Ltd. some time before 1992. It ran on MS-DOS.

almillar

I thought that ripping a CD for personal use had become legal this year (2013) - a bit late I know!

-TangleFoot-

almillar wrote: »

I thought that ripping a CD for personal use had become legal this year...

Not quite yet:

The changes will be introduced in 2013...