Illegal Movies and Videos
While many sites offer free and/or legal movies and videos, the following links may offer some legitimate downloads but illegal movies may be more difficult to spot or determine so if you’re worried about illegal internet activities, you may want to stay clear.
Plenty of movies clips and videos which are not necessarily professional or full length are available online and generally are much easier to access (and faster to download!). For amateur videos and movies (as well as illegal professional videos and movies), try any of search these sites:
The site below contains a smorgasbord of videos, many of which are user created and submitted although some mainstream movies and clips may be found or use within the videos available.
Locating a certain movie or video for free which you know is copyrighted might be difficult if you are only using a search engine. Two popular ways which internet viewers locate this illegal material is through P2P programs and Torrent clients.
P2P (aka Peer to Peer) programs allow users to download files which are available for download from other users’ systems including music, movies and applications and programs but other file types are commonly downloaded as well. Using a P2P program, such as the ones listed below, you can find both illegal and legal movies and videos. Because of online piracy, there has been a rise in fake files substituted for genuine content by those who would battle illegal P2P sharing (such as the RIAA).
Although torrent clients are technically a form of P2P programs, these clients specifically use BitTorrent protocol .torrent files rather than direct file downloads. Users browse torrent search sites for files and download the torrent file which contains dats about the file which is torrent clients use to inititiate the download. Torrent files can be downloaded piece by piece from separate users which can help optimize download times.
Search for torrents at these sites:
Some popular BitTorrent clients are:
