movie downloading

bobkat · Veteran Member

movie downloading

madaboutled · Guru

Maybe look at a portable USB Hard Drive minimum 1 TB cause 22 GB would only hold about half a dozen reasonable length movies. Lots of people on the road have portable hard drives including us.

bobkat · Veteran Member

Thanks what is the address of a site to download from? Bobkat

PeterD · Guru

Bob, he is a little confused. It looks like he is thinking there is 22 GB storage on your dongle. He is suggesting that is not enough storage and you should get some alternative device to store your downloaded movies.

toglhot · Senior Member

I did use a 500 GB portable HD that was velcroed to the rear of my TV but have now swapped to large USBs. All the movies I had on HD have been tranferred to the USBs. The Larger USBs (128gb +) are a little more expensive but they do hold a lot of movies and are a fraction of the size of portable HDs.

Delta18 · Guru

As Peter said, your responders are a little confused.

There really are no Safe Free sites anymore to download from. They were all using pirated software & that is being clamped down on.

To use your 22gig data, have a look at the likes of Stan, Kodi or even Netflix, you don't get to own the movie but you can watch one from their huge library for as little as $10 per month.

Good value & safe.

macka17 · Guru

You don't get the latest ones though.
Netflix and Amazons latest. We watched a coupla months or more ago.
I've got Thor Ragnarok here. b4 Gov't clamped down. Just.

toglhot · Senior Member

There are a few pirate sites still operating, just use a VPN.

Leo · Senior Member

VPN which one of the options,
au.pcmag.com/software/138/guide/the-best-vpn-services-of-2017

I use an older 2011 iMac and I am always worried I might stuff things up (that is technical jargon).

How do you use the VPN?

-- Edited by Leo on Tuesday 17th of October 2017 03:43:15 PM

madaboutled · Guru

PeterD wrote:
Bob, he is a little confused. It looks like he is thinking there is 22 GB storage on your dongle. He is suggesting that is not enough storage and you should get some alternative device to store your downloaded movies.

Yep I had C.R.A.F.T. moment... Now bashing head against wall to knock some sense into me... Bugger! It's plaster now have a hole in the wall.... Wonder if there's any money in there...

toglhot · Senior Member

Do a search for free VPNs, and download it. This may require trial and error as not all 'free' VPNs are actually free, free to download but not free to use. Once you have found one that is actually free, just click on the icon and click start. I use TunnelBear, another is Hola but not sure if they work on Macs. There will be something available though, just google free VPN for Mac.

You'll also need a torrent downloader, they're all free, just google torrent downloader for Mac, download, and it'll work automatically when you download a movie.

Sounds complicated but it's not, and remember there is nothing you can do to a computer that can't be fixed, just takes time, practice and most of all experimentation. Nobody ever learned anything from not making a mistake. Mistakes are what we learn from!

Don't believe all the crap about oldies not being very computer literate, I'm heading for late 60s and I've taught myself more than the younguns know.

Incidentally, there are quite a few legal free movie download sites: Crackle is pretty good.

-- Edited by toglhot on Tuesday 17th of October 2017 10:26:20 PM

Leo · Senior Member

Thank you.

toglhot · Senior Member

Let us know how you went...

woofta and precious · Senior Member

Yep, I'll second Crackle!

sandman55 · Guru

Hi I replied to this question on another thread here is what I said:- If you go to your local library you can borrow movie DVD's to watch at home but you want to take them with you and your time will expire so go to this forum https://club.myce.com/ and you can get advice on movie copying software in fact if you scroll down the page you will see a section on it. Copy the movie to your computer with the software (some is free and some you buy) and then copy it to your USB stick for viewing away from home.

Some might say it is pirating but you are legally borrowing them to view and your USB stick is the medium you use to view them and as long as you delete them when your finished and not sharing or stockpiling them then it is debatable that your pirating them. We do the same with Audio books on disc we put a story on our iPod and listen to it on a long road trip (many new cars these days don't have a CD player) and when we get home we wipe what we haven't listened to so that we have room for our next trip.

Hylife · Guru

Understand that the new metadata retention laws had nothing to do with anti-terrorism, it was all to do with the Australian Recording Industry Association trying to get around the privacy legislation that has hitherto prevented them from doing anything about piracy. The Aussie courts will not allow a blanket request by ARIA for Customer IP Address matching and each case before the courts can only be for a single user.
Now that metadata laws are in place they can legally ask the courts to enforce your ISP to hand over the data about traffic statistics to various sites. The courts will still not allow individual user identification. Consequently, ARIA has been successful in having the courts enforce blocking to specified web sites that host torrents such as The Pirate Bay.
It should be noted that Australian ISPs have in previous cases been deemed not liable for what their subscribers do on the web and can require plaintiffs such as ARIA to reimburse them for their costs in making any court ordered changes. With this in mind, the only simple low cost method of blocking available to ISPs that can encompass every user is to do a DNS block of the website's IP address.
DNSs (Domain Name Servers) do the lookup of IP addresses for the text address you type into your browser (eg, www.google.com is actually 216.58.196.132).

So, you don't need a VPN in Australia to protect your privacy.
What you do need to do is to bypass using your ISP to do the DNS lookup and to choose a 'Public DNS' address and then all those blocked sites become available again.
How, just change your DNS settings on your network adapter to one that is not an Australian ISP one.
By default most folks have the TCP/IP V4 settings as server assigned IP Address and Server Assigned DNS.
Change the DNS to use Googles DNS servers Primary 8.8.8.8 and secondary to 8.8.4.4
Google is global and is so big that no-one gets to tell them what they can and can't do.

Rather than me telling you how to get into these settings on your Windows/Mac/Linux PC, just go here developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

67HR · Senior Member

Hylife wrote:
Understand that the new metadata retention laws had nothing to do with anti-terrorism, it was all to do with the Australian Recording Industry Association trying to get around the privacy legislation that has hitherto prevented them from doing anything about piracy. The Aussie courts will not allow a blanket request by ARIA for Customer IP Address matching and each case before the courts can only be for a single user.
Now that metadata laws are in place they can legally ask the courts to enforce your ISP to hand over the data about traffic statistics to various sites. The courts will still not allow individual user identification. Consequently, ARIA has been successful in having the courts enforce blocking to specified web sites that host torrents such as The Pirate Bay.
It should be noted that Australian ISPs have in previous cases been deemed not liable for what their subscribers do on the web and can require plaintiffs such as ARIA to reimburse them for their costs in making any court ordered changes. With this in mind, the only simple low cost method of blocking available to ISPs that can encompass every user is to do a DNS block of the website's IP address.
DNSs (Domain Name Servers) do the lookup of IP addresses for the text address you type into your browser (eg, www.google.com is actually 216.58.196.132).

So, you don't need a VPN in Australia to protect your privacy.
What you do need to do is to bypass using your ISP to do the DNS lookup and to choose a 'Public DNS' address and then all those blocked sites become available again.
How, just change your DNS settings on your network adapter to one that is not an Australian ISP one.
By default most folks have the TCP/IP V4 settings as server assigned IP Address and Server Assigned DNS.
Change the DNS to use Googles DNS servers Primary 8.8.8.8 and secondary to 8.8.4.4
Google is global and is so big that no-one gets to tell them what they can and can't do.

Rather than me telling you how to get into these settings on your Windows/Mac/Linux PC, just go here developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Thank you Hylife,

A wealth of information there for me study

Thanks Trev

sandman55 · Guru

Yes Hylife it is very informative.