I am kinda limited in my mobility. I could pay a cab 15 bucks to go to a theater, and then pay 5 bucks to see a movie. There are other alternitives to the cab, but, I pretty much would rather not go there. I'm into this downloading torrents thing. Netflix is fine if you wanna wait until stuff comes out on dvd. I just don't like the cab fair. Does anyone know how I can download torrents of movies. I'm looking for a way to watch movies on my computer. I wouldn't mind buying a 5 dollar torrent, to see a movie.

hey; lets epand this. Tell me what your favorit bittorrent client is and why. Vuze is the most widely used one, and I can't figure out why. I use Utorrent.

Be care with torrents! Go to limewire and subscribe to the pro. You can get a lot of movies on there.

I would not only be careful with torrents but also with posting about the use of them you have posted here.

You see while torrents do not get the movie from a single source as a way to get around copyright infringement laws. What you are suggesting that you do is still considered a violation of the copyright & patent laws. It is also morally and ethically wrong to do such a thing.

If you wanted to buy a movie legitimately or even rent one go through a company like netflix. You should not be downloading movies or music for that matter prior to it being released in disk format for sale.

Actually I believe this topic is in violation of the rules of this site as well.

sorry, I was acctually looking for something that would charge me a fee to download movies. Here's the deal. I wanted to see the new star trek movie without paying a 15 dollar cab fair to see a movie that would cost me; I think tickets are about 10 bucks now, and then 15 bucks to get back home. The 10 bucks I have no problem with. The other 30 bucks is what I am trying to avoid.

RPwolf,

If what your trying to do is just avoid the transportation cost then that is entirely another issue all together. That I can give you some suggestions on.

If you live in a city you can always opt for public transportation. Depending on how immobile you are you may need to contact them prior to allow them to make arrangements to accommodate you.

In more rural areas you may have a transportation service provided at the county level through an agency for the aged or similar to it.

You may also be able to look into a ride share program as well.

Another thought might be to look into local groups that frequent specific types of movies in your area. If they do not exist in your area maybe think about starting one on your own. Say for example you like horror movies. Now lets say you talk to a friend and find they do as well. before you know it you have a group of people with common interest. Maybe you can get them together to go see a new movie at one time or start a bulletin board with the show times listed and you may be able to meet up with people and go with them or vise versa. Most people would not hold your handicap against you in fact most would try to help you any way they could.

Maybe you have a friend or neighbor that is out of work that has transportation where if you offered to pay a small amount to cover gas they would drive you to and from. Who knows you may want to offer to pay for their ticket to see the movie instead of paying their gas.

another thought might be to contact your local blockbuster or large movie rental place. Explain your situation to them and ask them if you were to either purchase or rent movies with a credit card over the phone from them if there would be a way they could possibly make arrangements to get them delivered to you. Odds are their employees may be driving right by your home on their way home. You may be surprized by the level of customer service you get. I had a family member that had a stroke and we were able to get the grocery store to accept credit card over the phone they would pull her food order deliver it to her house and even put it in her cabinets for the nurses to cook for her.

Thanks for the ideas Kim. BTW, has anyone been paying attention to the legality stuff? Last I heard, the AAIC had been trying to sew people for this stuff. The last I heard; 1) when stuff is released to the public, it's released. 2) if your downloading audio or video, you are not getting top quality. 3) unless you download stuff, burn it to a dvd and sell it at a profit you're not really breaking copyright laws.... The list goes on and on. There is one site that distibutes stuff, and they say it's legit. As for me; I'm just in a wheelchair. I just can't get out much, kinda tied down and don't get out much. As for ethics. I don't think it was ethically right for some lady to be driving while she was still under the influence. But, my beliefs are; "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." and remember, "as you judge; you shall be judged." I'm not real big on religon, but, these are two of my biggest beliefs. All I do know is after the last AAIC incident; alot of the issues were dropped, and all the people that were sewed got their charges reduced. It's probably still not the best thing to do. But then.................................

I recently took a college course in computer ethics. I can tell you that there were more then one person in that class that had been sued and fined heavily for downloading music files and storing them on their computers and MP3 players.

If you are really interested in reading up on the subject I would suggest you check out a couple of books and read them as you may see it through different eyes when your done reading them.

Computer Ethics fourth edition by Deborah G. Johnson

Case studies in Information Technology Ethics Second Edition by Richard A. Spinello

I am not sure if your interested in it or not but if you are that is a good place to start out.

limewire is spyware, period - goto ovguide.com, one of my fav's is project free tv

now if you want to download what you are watching, then that is another thing, and additional thing, what you can do is install firefox at mozilla.com, then go back to mozilla.com and click on addons, you want to search for downloadhelper, all one word - install it, and it will give you the ability to download most movies/tv/whatever, to your pc (after it's installed, when media events are downloadable the 3 balls representing the downloader will turn colors and begin to spin - you want to click on the tiny arrow just to the right side of the spinning 3d balls), but you need something stronger than window$$ media player (safe assumption you are not running mac or linux here), you want vlc, which you can download at http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.1/win32/vlc-1.0.1-win32.exe , which is a download mirror for this great media player. When you install it, make sure all the boxes are checked. This player will play most anything, and not try to install any 3rd party software or toolbars or any of that crap.