Downloading movies and TV shows

United States
November 29, 2010 10:12am CST
I've seen a lot of sites on the internet where you can supposedly download full movies and tv shows for one flat membership fee. Are these sites legitimate? Can you really get any movie or TV show you want? I'm looking mostly for classic TV shows like Bonanza. I don't mind paying money if the sites are reliable and I don't get any viruses.
2 responses
• United States
29 Nov 10
I would recommend getting utorrent and just downloading the torrents from sites like piratebay.com or just googling "Bonanza torrent" and seeing what comes up. It's completely free just download a free copy of utorrent from their website. Also, you can download pretty much anything with it: movies, games, programs, pictures, music, etc. It's the best way of downloading! Let me know if you want any more information!
• United States
30 Dec 10
Is it safe, and free from viruses? I've heard a lot of bad stuff about people getting viruses from torrent sites.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Some of those websites might be safe enough and there are many legit sources on the Internet where certain television shows are offered legally. However, there are certain things that you must be careful with on the Internet. Having a good virus scan or malware detector is good, as you never know what might be lurking on these types of websites or services. There are going to be a lot good stuff but also people might attach malicious things to go along for the ride, because that's just some people get their kicks. If I want to in theory watch something like that, I check out YouTube or Dailymotion. It might be broken up into parts, but a lot of stuff is there and it is much safer than downloading something in many case. Some of the quality is pretty good as well. Still if you download something off of the Internet, anything off of the Internet, there are going to be some risk. Just be careful of what you download and everything should be smooth sailing. At least that is the theory.