I remember 5 as well as 2 years ago it was pretty difficult to watch movies online. This was the time wheb sites like Napster were getting sued for allowing individuals to talk about their hard disks with the world on a peer to peer network. Thus, allowing people far away and states to play and swap music that has been not accessible on their own drives. The record companies did not find this practice to be beneficial or above regulations so that they stopped the service. Theflixer Well, this same concept of stopping folks from sharing their movies online was stopped also.
The problem was that film and music companies were not getting their share of the money. They were struggling to come to the table and obtain their little bit of the pie. But how was this any not the same as the days when I possibly could tape my local DJ mix and dub it and pass it on to my friends back the 80's. In those days no-one complained about music swapping yourself. And even dubbing movies and giving it to someone else. No money swapped. So, what's the problem???
Well, aside from that it appears that some very innovative companies have figured out ways to make the record and film companies happy and in addition line their pockets with money. Companies like iTunes and Amazon.com are now a few of the leaders of online movie download. Both services charge a fee for individuals to download the movie, music or perhaps a TV episode. Some of that money would go to the company that owns the film or show. But a portion of the money would go to the distributing company.
These services have been a god sent blessing to most people that desire to see a movie the day they comes out, without having to go to the local Walmart to get the DVD. They have made it easy to just choose the movie online, save it on my local computer and watch it whenever I fill fit. This makes it easy to watch the movie online on some type of computer, on a ipod or import it to a device like a xbox 360 360 and watch it on a TV.
But let's say you do not want to buy the movie. Maybe it isn't worthy of a full purchase price. Well, iTunes and Amazon still have you covered. You can rent the movie and then you will have a month to watch the movie once within a 24 hour period as soon as you start watching the movie. This is more than enough time to watch the movie many times.