(legal) movie downloads

johnnyboyrebel

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Not quite yet:

It's irrelevant though whether we are told we are 'allowed' to rip a CD or not. The fact is everyone does, the powers that be just like to think they are in control and they are doing us a favour whereby in reality we have been doing it for years!

-TangleFoot-

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

the powers that be just like to think they are in control and they are doing us a favour

I prefer to think of it as an oversight - like all the others.

chrisv24

I genuinely think its harder to find legal ways of downloading than illegal ways.

Have you ever thought of getting an apple tv? With a good internet connection you'll be able to rent movies and stream them directly to your tv.

50Twuncle

This may sound like a simple question but, What is to stop me from getting round BBC iplayers 30 day restriction by copying programs to USB and playing them directly into my TV ?
My TV has no clock on it - so how will it know when the 30 days is up ?

jackieblack

joolzred wrote: »

it's difficult for me to browse racks of DVDs locally so I was wondering if there was a legal, cheapish ways to download movies & burn to a DVD to watch at home or on our laptop when away?

joolzred wrote: »

I meant cheap as in supermarket price DVD Guess I might have to just buy a few movies & store on the external HDD!

Lots of cheap (supermarket price) DVDs available to buy online (Amazon and supermarket's own websites etc)
also would save having to burn downloads to DVD
:huh:

esuhl

21Twinkle wrote: »

This may sound like a simple question but, What is to stop me from getting round BBC iplayers 30 day restriction by copying programs to USB and playing them directly into my TV ?
My TV has no clock on it - so how will it know when the 30 days is up ?

Legally, copyright law.

Technically nothing... assuming the BBC programmes you've downloaded aren't DRM protected.

If the files don't use DRM, they won't care what time it is any more than a letter you type in Word cares what time it is. If the files do use DRM, then they will either be incompatible with your TV or there will be some mechanism to determine when the licence period expires. Most TVs can get a time signal from a TV broadcast, so maybe that's how your TV will "know" when the time is up.

johnnyboyrebel

esuhl wrote: »

Legally, copyright law.

Technically nothing... assuming the BBC programmes you've downloaded aren't DRM protected.

If the files don't use DRM, they won't care what time it is any more than a letter you type in Word cares what time it is. If the files do use DRM, then they will either be incompatible with your TV or there will be some mechanism to determine when the licence period expires. Most TVs can get a time signal from a TV broadcast, so maybe that's how your TV will "know" when the time is up.

Bypassing or removing DRM is hardly a difficult step to overcome... It's very much like copy protection on a CD. Pointless as it can be bypassed without even thinking.

zee_2

After all hot air on your question , look up
http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/
free but nothing special ,many others like it, possible better.

-TangleFoot-

zee wrote: »

...many others like it, possible better.

Such as The Internet Archive?

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