There's a New Sheriff in Town and the Movie Downloads Are on Lockdown

[Dewey Stone]

We have heard it all before, how this 'little girl' got fined a
billion dollars and how the man next door has to serve life in prison,
for simply downloading 'copyrighted' material from some website and so
carries on the urban legend of the empire striking back. How
completely blown out of proportion things can get when a few whispers
in the dark begin to spread across the globe through these internet
lines. In doing so attempting to lock down in fear all of us who are
simply looking for our next line of interest in the way of movies,
television or music that we wish to try before we buy.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not standing here a saying that there is no
such thing as the federal downloading sheriff or some officially named
agency to that effect. Whatever they may call themselves it stands to
reason that those downloading Pirates of the internet Caribbean who
are taking copies of lets say Beyonce's new cd or Jerry Bruckheimer's
newest movie and selling them out of his car on the streets or even
selling them for a small profit on eBay deserve to be punished by the
laws that are in place to protect copyrighted material, and the rights
of the creative work. What is happening though is that any and all
'Free' downloads are being categorized as exactly the same type of
crime and that is were a line must be drawn in the sand so to speak.
There is a large difference between profiting from the illegal sale of
copyrighted material and listening or watching a movie or song that
was downloaded or streamed from some source on the internet. As long
as you or I do not intend to sell that song or movie to anyone, we
have broken no laws and harmed no one whatsoever. It is this lie that
was spread across the internet by ignorant people led by their fear of
being fined that billion dollars from the 'record companies' or being
imprisoned for life by the 'movie studios'. Common sense will prevail
eventually one can hope as since the dawn of home recordings came the
cries of the ignorant when each and every one of us has recorded
something at some point in our lives and I doubt you thought about
going to jail for it did you? Not Likely. From tape cassettes to VCR's
to TiVo and DVR's, CDRW's and now even DVDRW's. If it truly was
illegal to record something for our own personal enjoyment then why
would a recording device be so readily available anywhere, it would be
contraband or at the very least professionally licensed and regulated.
Since that is not the case we can finally put to rest the lies of
'illegal downloading' once and for all and continue to enjoy all the
entertainment that is at our fingertips thanks to the internet. The
one true problem we do need to look out for however is the scams and
viruses imbedded into many of these downloads, that is something that
does require a bit of safe thinking on our part and that, thankfully,
is fully regulated by the simplest of trusting catalog sites who have
weeded out those poor sites from the honest ones. Enter the new
sheriff who goes by the name of Graboid. Here at last to provide us
with not only the finest in quality and quantity, but to also make it
easy to use and easy to view all our favorite movies online right from
home and perfectly legal, provided you don't intend to sell your home
theater as a movie ticket or burn off a copy of the movie to sell on
eBay.