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Usually, when you read an article that tells you to stay away from online bootleg movie downloads, the article simply attempts to deter you and leave you with no alternatives. The fact of the matter is that there are alternatives. Not only that, but there are also legal alternatives. Read further to learn about how you can watch online bootleg movie downloads, without leaving a trail of illegal activity.

Streamed Movies

Numerous websites currently list online bootleg movie downloads, which you can view right on their site, without signing up to anything or creating an account. These movies are not hosted on the actual site. In order to avoid direct copyright infringement, these sites upload the videos in flash format to other sites such as Google Video or YouTube and then link to the uploaded video from the main site. The problem with these videos is that they are periodically erased from the site they were uploaded to. Google as well as other websites, has a staff working on the removal of material in violation of copyrights. Every so often, once the movie has been removed, the main site will upload it again. It’s basically a never ending game of tag.

Additionally, since these videos are in flash (.flv) format, the quality is reduced due to the file conversion. Flash video does not support high resolution in order to be easily streamed online. Another point to take into account is the fact that despite the amount of movies these sites claim to stream, most of the movies on these sites have already been deleted from their actual locations. Despite the diminished level of reliability, watching streamed movies presents the lowest threat as far as watching bootlegs.

Free Movie Downloads

Numerous movies and television shows can be viewed online legally with complete copyright cooperation. Websites such as IMDB (Internet Movie Database) and others, offer numerous streaming videos on their sites. Since these sites operate legally and allow you to view their videos for free, they do not have movies that are currently in the theater. A good rule of thumb is if it is still in the box office, then it is probably illegal to view outside of the box office.

Paid Movie Downloads

Despite the fact that you are most likely searching for free resources, you should still take into account paid movie downloads. Usually these sites will charge a flat one time membership fee and then grant you unlimited access to their archives. Paid movie download sites offer millions of movie downloads and their quality is much better then what you will get with streamed video. In most cases, the movie downloads from paid sites are in DVD format and usually include the menu and chapter selections as well. If you are planning on building up your DVD collection, then this is the best way to go.

The reason these sites are able operate legally is simply due to the fact that their one time fee helps pay for copyright agreements. When you purchase a DVD at the store, you also pay for the box, the DVD, the advertising, and the shipping. If you are simply downloading the file, then the majority of the DVD cost is eliminated. These sites will usually charge about $50, but if you take into account the cost of 300 plus DVDs that you may download, you are really just paying for initial access and getting the movies for free.

There is probably no other profession than the music business where so many people will try to take advantage of you when you are starting out as an artist or musician if you don’t have a lawyer. Whether you or your band hails from Carlsbad, Encinitas, Del Mar, Solana Beach in San Diego, Anaheim or Santa Ana in Orange County, or Palm Springs, whether you developed your talent in La Jolla, or at Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach or Santa Barbara, and whether you live, studied or performed in Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica, Venice, Malibu, Palm Desert or La Quinta, when you are just starting out, the entertainment industry sees you as someone whom they can take advantage of.

 

Music contracts are notoriously long, complicated and almost undecipherable to all but a music lawyer. Thirty page contracts are nothing unusual in this business. And there are so many contracts you will be faced with as a musician. Sign the wrong contract and you can be married to a bad agent, promoter, manager, distribution deal, publishing deal or record company and have your career over before it ever began.

 

Besides the issues you will face with copyrighting your music and trademarking your band name and logo, if you have one, there are management contracts, recording contracts, publishing contracts, agent contracts, distribution deals, licensing contracts, promotion deals, festival and concert contracts, producer agreements and that doesn’t even get into the complex issues contained in many of these agreements.

 

A music lawyer must have knowledge of synchronization rights, digital rights, peer to peer file swapping, sampling, mechanical licenses, copyright infringement, publishing, advertising law, immigration, employment law, negotiation, ring tones, and have a good understanding of how music is made from mixing to mastering, from the roles of the producer to the needs of the musicians.

 

And yet, for the music lawyer, there is little that is as rewarding as being part of the recording process or helping a band make it to the big time.

 

My advice to musicians just starting out and being presented with any type of contract is that having their contract reviewed by a music lawyer is essential. You are likely being presented with the most one-sided type of contract in any business or profession. They are written by the attorneys for the company or manager who is handing it to you with absolutely no attempt to be even handed.

 

Worst of all, at this stage in your career, you have little leverage. No matter how good you think your music is, the music world is littered with great musicians who signed horrible contracts that stifled if not ended their careers. If you have to do an extra gig and save the money to have a contract reviewed, that’s what you need to do. Get yourselves a good music lawyer. Not a divorce lawyer. Not a trial lawyer. An entertainment lawyer who knows the music business and one, preferably, who is interested in music and who is willing to listen to your music.  

 

If you have an entertainment law, copyright or trademark issue in San Diego, Newport Beach, Irvine, Orange County, La Jolla, in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Huntington Beach Entertainment Lawyer and your Anaheim Entertainment Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with entertainment law experience who can serve areas such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Anaheim, Irvine, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fullerton, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, San Luis Obispo, Buena Park, La Jolla, Oxnard, Ventura, La Quinta, and Santa Barbara so you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have an entertainment law, or copyright dispute of any kind, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.

Comedy movies started long back in the 1900s. The first movie to be produced was by Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This could also be considered the first to show the comic aspect of a movie. Comedy films began to appear more during the era of silent films, prior to the 1930s. These comedy movies were originally based on visual humor. The prominent figure that we all know as Charlie Chaplin was one of the famous clown-style actors of the silent era. It was through Charlie Chaplin that Hollywood comedy movies became famous. Soon came Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Then in the 1920s came another trend, of animated cartoons. They were the most popular Hollywood comedy movies of the time. Several popular characters of that era were Felix the cat, Krazy Kat and Betty Boop. However, the popularity of these movies was hindered due to lack of sound and color.

By the end of 1920s, the Hollywood comedy industry showed a change brought about by the introduction of sound into movies. This allowed the industry to create dramatic new film styles and use verbal humor. Those films soon replaced silent movies. They used dialogues by comedians such as W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. Charlie Chaplin was the last comedian to have acted in a silent film, and his films during 1930s were without dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

When the United States entered into World War II, Hollywood movies changed their course to themes related to conflicts and Hollywood comedy movies also inclined to military themes. The war era experienced a boom, when due to the restriction on traveling, nearly a quarter of the money spent was spent on movies.

In the 1950s, interest shifted to social situations or family-oriented comedies. During that period the number of Hollywood comedy films declined. The 1960s saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies. In 1970, Hollywood comedy movies reflected the anti-war sentiment which was prevailing then. Amongst the leading figures of this time were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. They wrote, directed and appeared in their own movies.

In the 1980s, the gag based comedy Airplane, a spoof of the previous decade disaster film series, was released and Hollywood comedy movies followed suit for more of the same including Top Secret and the Naked Gun films. The popular comedians of that time included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Jim Carrey, the Canadian actor, came into Hollywood comedy movies in the late 1980s when he won a role in Damian Lee Canadian’s skiing comedy, Copper Mountain.

The most popular Hollywood comedy movies were of John Hughes, which included Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the Home Alone series of 1990s. The latter focused more on a family audience. That showed a revival in comedy movies. Spoof comedy movies have remained popular till date.

Another development in Hollywood comedy movies was the use of gross humor, which is usually aimed at the younger audience, in films like, There’s Something about Mary, American Pie and many more. This trend of gross movies continued with adult oriented comedies picking up the box office for some time more.

So you think that maybe one or two (or more) bootleg movie download wouldn’t be that bad, right? After all, how can it possibly affect the rest of the world’s film industry when it is just one movie, after all? Or is that, one movie download at a time? Unfortunately, that one movie represents months of hard work, not to mention the pre and post production labor that usually goes along with it; and the very large amount of money being invested into its making and promotion. Investing money in one Hollywood movie project can easily go into millions of dollars. Although other movie outfits in other parts of the globe do not invest as much, one movie still represents a huge amount of financial resources.

From a lone individual’s point of view, a bootleg movie download is just that: one digital file to watch and discard or collect afterwards. But for most movie outfits out there that have investments running on each movie project, including contracts with CD/DVD distributors, they only see continuous downloads from different individuals, from all over the globe, all at the same time. These individual “pirates” no longer feel the need to pay for the movies they are watching, which basically represents huge losses in potential CD/DVD sale.

Additionally, there are other people who see this as an opportunity to make money the underground way. According to a recent study, over 100 million pirated CDs and DVDs are flooding the black markets, selling pirated versions of the most recent films. Some of these films are in fact, still being shown in cinemas at the same time. On this note, selling pirated copies like these represents huge losses in potential movie theater ticket sales.

Both scenarios constitute revenue loss for the film industry and not by a marginal percentage either. It is estimated that the loss of potential income for one movie, (including possible ticket sales, CD/DVD distribution rights, etc.) is close to 35% of the actual movie earnings.

If such statistics confuses you, then we should clarify. That money that pirates (individuals to organized groups) eventually cull from movie outfits earnings could have been used to help save the jobs of many studio workers, particularly the blue-collars who perform the grittiest tasks like maintenance, set construction, etc. After all, a movie is not just about actors and directors. The same money could also have been used to improve movie production by hiring more post-prod talents like animators, video editors, etc.

Although most of us do not feel the effects of bootleg movie download on a personal level, this practice is actually making it difficult to sustain a film industry that basically runs on financial revenue. So in turn, the film industry has no other option but to raise theater ticket prices and CD/DVD prices, just to break even.

In case you haven’t noticed, the higher the prices of legit movies become, the more pirated copies emerge. The funny thing about this is that people reason that they only practice bootleg movie download because theater prices are too high or the CD/DVD is too expensive.

One way of stopping this out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-fire practice is to subscribe to legal online movie distributors like BootlegMovieDownload.ws. Yes, there is an asking fee. But their rates are more than reasonable, considering that one movie ticket in cinemas now can sometimes cost you more than $15; and more importantly, online companies like this give back due resources to movie outfits with distributor’s fees.

There was once one YouTube viewer named Brian who published a question on to how he can download the great movies he is watching in this website. He once said that he has been trying to download some YouTube movies but was unable to do so for some unknown reasons. The truth is there are several YouTube users who are sharing the same problem as Brian. Most of them are unaware of how to save their favorite movies on their hard drives.

Anyhow, is it really possible to download movies from YouTube? Great thing, it is. So, if you are one of these people who are tired of bookmarking the pages of your favorite YouTube movies, this is the perfect time for you to learn the ways on how to appropriately do it.

YouTube Movies and How They Work

YouTube basically uses Flash video in order to playback movies on their website. This is actually the main reason why it is harder for people to download movies from YouTube. Using a Flash from a publisher standpoint certainly makes it harder for people to enjoy the benefits of downloading these movies.

However, it is still not impossible for you to download your favorite movies because you can simply search your Temp index for the file depending on how the Flash movies are played. This is feasible because the server downloads the whole movie to your desktop computer during playback.

To spare you from exerting too much effort, it is better to find someone to do the work for you in locating the file for YouTube movies. One of the website to help you on this matter is the KeepVid, which locates downloads from a number of Internet sites.

How to Download YouTube Movies Using KeepVid

If you happen to see a YouTube video you want to keep, simply copy the URL next to the page where the video is posted. And then, paste it into the download lookup of the KeepVid. Go to the list of sites, locate for YouTube and select it. Finally, click the download button.

KeepVid will be the one to locate for the download link and give you the instructions on how to download the movie you want putting an end to all your hassles.

Since YouTube utilizes the FLV Flash format that is not instantaneously playable, you then also need an application to play it back. You may use Windows user so you can get a copy of FLV Player. This way, you can already watch the files from your desktop computer. You may also try the shareware application SWF.max, this actually displays thumbnails of the movies and includes a number of great features to give you full control on playback.

How to Download YouTube Movies for Firefox Users

If your default browser is Firefox, you can download movies from YouTube by simply installing an extension. Example of this extension is Unplug, which allows you to save both audio and video inserted on a webpage. Set up the extension and when you are already on a page where the movie you want to save is located, simply go to Tools then Unplug and you can download the movie finally.

Other Ways to Download YouTube Movies

There a lot of other option to download Youtube movies. You may want to download iTube, a freetool, and install it on your computer. Open iTube and choose File and then go to Options. And then below the Save Movies To: simply field enter the location where you want to save the YouTube movie. You can actually choose if you want to convert the file giving you more options to download it on your iPod or if you simply want to MPEG for daily use on your home computer.

If you want to download the movie to your iPod, you have to check the Import Converted Files Into iTunes option. In case you don’t have iTunes, you have to be sure that this option is unchecked. Once this is checked, the program will detect it as an error. Finally, once the download is done, simply click OK.

Afterwards, you can enter the URL of the movie right in the field of Page URL, then click Go. You will notice that the program will initialize and begin to download the movie in the hard drive of your computer. Now, once the download is over, the movie will be converted according to what you have chosen during the third step. If you are planning though to download movies right from other sites such as Metacafe or GoogleVideo, you will be in need of other handlers. In this case, you may also download your chosen handler and install when finished downloading.