How To Download Free Online Movies - By: Pete Nisbet

It is not difficult to download free online movies if you know how to do it, and also understand the legalities. It is very easy to step over the line and illegally download bootleg movies protected by copyright using file sharing services, although there are also many legal online sites available.

Although it is possible to find free P2P sites that enable you to download free online movies without any membership cost, these should be avoided for two reasons:

1. They enable you to download copyright-protected movies which is illegal, and

2. They do not offer support or particularly fast download speeds, and most do not offer you burning software that can be used to burn your movies to DVD.

For that reason you are strongly advised to use the paid subscription sites. The best of these offer you at minimum a 1-year subscription or a life subscription. You can try the 1-year subscription to determine if you like the site and the services it offers, and then the life subscription if you find it meets your needs.

Not only that, but a paid subscription service enables you to download the large movie files quickly - this can take hours and hours if you use the standard download rates of unpaid sites, and the payment you have to make is not high when compared to the time you save in downloading full-sized movies.

Many sites enable you to download free online movies legally from the public domain: they are no longer covered by copyright. Others have a large database of preapproved videos that can be downloaded legally. Yet others offer you file sharing software that can be used to download approved movies from the hard drives of other users, although you have to keep an eye out for the copyright protected movies, including some of the latest blockbusters, which subscribers download illegally.

When these are available, you are frequently informed that they are protected, and you can decide not to do so. It is not advisable to break the law in this way, and the file sharing system was devised so that music composers and singers and young movie-makers could offer their work online free of charge for the public to download and enjoy.

In many cases this has been an excellent route for them to follow to fame and fortune, because peer-to-peer file sharing enables people to pass around the movies and music that have impressed them. In this way, relative unknowns can rapidly become stars. That was the true intended purpose of file sharing software, not stealing original work and recent music and movies that are copyright protected.

It's like you photocopying a book and distributing it to all your friends. The legal sites are like libraries in a way, and movie pirates are like people that would copy library books and sell them in their own stores.

So yes, it is possible to use file sharing sites legally, although very often the choice is left to you. Nevertheless, there are also sites that offer nothing but legal downloads, much like your local video store, but downloadable. So it is not the system that is illegal, but the way people use it to download free online movies, and those that use it illegally are spoiling it for those of us that don't.

About the Author

More information on how to Download Free Online Movies legally, and how to use file sharing sites properly are available from Pete's website Online Free Movies where you will find pages on the illegal and legal aspects of such sites.

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