jpmcsale Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 I don't understand why downloading movies with bit torrent is illegal when there are so many legal sites letting you view free movies. eg IDBM.com and a app called Crackle have a ton of free movies you can watch. Are these movies in a public domain or something like some books are? Would appreciate some enlightenment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Sorry, but this really is pretty basic. You need to make an attempt at some research on your own. Start by googling "Crackle". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpmcsale Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 I did a google on crackle and got this: http://www.crackle.com/c/Movies?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=&utm_content=spWRwq5Ab_9489916812_487lrz1638&utm_term=crackle%20movies Free movies no commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 What else did you see when you googled Crackle? Did you see a wikipedia article? DId you read it? Who owns Crackle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpmcsale Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share Posted June 18, 2012 wikipedia says it owned by Sony and states: Crackle currently features original content and licenses movies from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, and Sony Pictures Classics and TV shows from Sony Pictures Television.[9] I gues I just have a hard time understanding how they are making money at this but I guess it all trickles down by buying the licences for big bucks then selling smart tv's with crackle and however else they are making money with this as a feature. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Basically hollywood and the recording studios had a monopoly, audio cds and dvd discs were difficult to copy and way to much data to download... so they were selling them and making a fortune. Then internet technology made it possible to download a movie in minutes instead of months, and instead of adapting to the technology and profiting from it, they tried to suppress it with laws. Now I think they realize the only way to win is embrace the technology. If they had sold movies for a dollar per download they would have made a nice profit and it wouldn't have effected dvd sales at all, but they wanted to be greedy and charge the same price for a download as buying the disc or cd costs. I suspect now they are wising up and are realizing that the internet offers free distribution and no manufacturing costs, so it's 100% profit. A $20 dvd only gets them a couple dollars profit and they sell a million, if they had a $1 download they'd still sell a million discs, and another 10 million downloads in the same time period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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