Movies: Free legal dwnlds: Yup, Torrentfreak has 5 movie classics in the horrorflick genre, for you!

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If you're rigged technically to receive the p2p file-sharing service of BitTorrent or similars (explained) you can now download legit freebies via that application the following horrorflicks:

* Detour

* House on a Haunted Hill

* Nosferatu (1922)

* The Last Man on Earth

* The Little Shop of Horrors

Says the Torrentfreak website, these "5 movie classics...are in the public domain. Free to download, free to share, free of DRM" -- that's Digital R+ts Management, the mainstream move-industry oligopoly's p2p-wrecking technics to counter digital distribution of cinema and other arts beyond their control and profit.

"The movies are hosted by publicdomaintorrents, the great resource for movie addicts we discussed earlier." [Here's the earlier:]

Public Domain Torrents offers an extensive collection of Classic and B-Movie torrents [794 titles altogether]. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them.

They currently have a collection of 531 movies which are available in different formats (including iPod). For example, you can download the christmas classic “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (awfull movie by the way). Or perhaps the real classic “Nosferatu“, based on the Dracula story.

Movies/P2Ptechnics,by Anaximander & OwlieScowlie

This site is pretty much heaven for both torrent and moviefreaks. New content is added on a daily basis, take a look.

I also found this site: DownloadAnyMovie.com, the name of which I suspect is a come-on, rather than a so-called "mass-piracy" site. The site's subtitle clarifies: "Your Movie Downloading Review Source." It seems to be a kind of hub for the real "piratical" thing. You can go to other movie p2p-download sites from a link in each of DownloadAnyMovie's site reviews. However, the foregoing characterizations are my compromise with the prevailing lingo of the "legit" side (as against the "pirate" side, which binomial polarity of terms expresses the relationship exclusively in the "legit" side's lingo) -- that is to say, in the USA jurisdiction. But, despite lingo, nothing is legally settled in the USA. Europe perhaps is has settled the legalities in favour of the oligarchs.

In Canada, on the other hand, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed classical Canadian legal definitions of copiable material that permit file-sharing where there is no use of the copied movies for commercial purposes. That's the one restriction, as I understand the current situation. The owner of a digitally-recorded movie has the r+t to share it with others, as long as there's no sale or rental, again, as I understand the matter.

I used to follow the Canada-legal practice of p2p file-sharing with regard to music and spoken poetry, again quite legal in the jurisdiction where I am a Permanent Resident, while remaining a citizen of the US; for that purpose of free music downloading, I used LimeWire. However, I long ago lost interest, since most of the downloads were scratchy or ticky. These days, I can listen to free music on the net from WMFU radio music out of Newark, New Jersey (as I recall); and iTunes free radio channels over the Net.

About BitTorrent legality: Paul Gil states the US/Canada difference this way:

Copyright warning. Unless you live in Canada, you must understand that copyright laws are commonly violated by P2P sharing. If you download a song, movie, or TV show, you do risk a civil lawsuit. Canadians are protected from these lawsuits because of a Canadian Supreme Court ruling, but not residents of the USA or most parts of Europe and Asia. This lawsuit risk is a reality, and you must accept this risk if you choose to download P2P files.

And more:

Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, downloading music, movie, and TV files will put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA [Moving Picture Association of America] and RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America - music], along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties. Please keep this lawsuit risk in mind when you install and use any BitTorrent software in the USA, Europe, or Asia.

All this is to say, if you can master the technical application (BitTorrents or uTorrent, Azureus, ABC, TurboBit, BitComet), you can legally and free-of-charge indulge the history of film by downloading free and legally the silent flick Nosferatu. You'll need lots of harddisk space for these lengthy files.

Further Info:

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