[shawbroth]

As downloading TV shows, music and movies has become more and more ambiguous I find myself turning cheek to certain methods of obtaining this material. I'm talking about friends buying a DVD and obtaining a digital copy of course. The legal way. So to not risk contraction of any unwanted data I resorted into streaming movies, TV shows and music. There are lots of sites with sketchy origins, but plenty with legit copyright approval. So to the point can anyone think of any sites that offer TV shows or movies streamed? That are copyrighted of course.

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Hi shawbroth.

I did a quick search on google for "Streaming TV or Movies", and found pages upon pages of websites of streaming TV and/or movies. The first one listed, www.hula.com did not seem to have any legal disclaimer, and to see if anything would come up stating I am watching this show illegally, I clicked on an episode of "Family Guy" I saw nothing of any such warning at all. Another search, for location of hula.com brought up this, from June of 2004...

Hula.com Launches in Beta today

NBC and Universal's joint venture Hulu.com has launched in private beta. The new video service will feature premium video content delivered over a Flash-based web interface, and is already being syndicated to sites such as video.aol.com. First impressions have been positive, and Hulu allows you to embed content into other websites. As a private beta, access to the site appears to be limited, but the embedded player allows you to browse other content.

At present it appears the contents are ad-supported, with very short ads playing at designated times during playback. Ads are noted on the timeline as small dots. Looks legal to me to watch the content provided.

Site #2, www.surfthechannel.com and site #3, www.surfthechannel.com, both have posted under Terms and Conditions, a FAQ link, that displays the legality of their respective links...

Governing Law

"The governing law will be that of Sweden, the country in which this site is based and from which all services are provided."

I do not know of any law that prohibits users from viewing programs from another country. A big problem I see which will occur is the fact "rating of shows" differ in other countries, and how to keep the kids off the computer, a job that is hard enough with shows on the "big" networks in the US. Not that I watch them, but the "soaps" of today might have a high R rating compared to "Father Knows Best", or "Leave It To Beaver" some 40 years ago. Gee Wally, do you think we should sneak in and watch TV, even when Mom & Dad told us not to? Aww Beaver, don't be a wimp. It's only a cartoon called South Park. Ahhh the days of "rabbit ears" AND no remote controls! How did we survive them?

The few minutes of "Family Guy" O watched were in english, and not swedish, and all 3 do not demand you register to watch, but have a link where you can create an account. (people know "who you are" by your "fingerprint" or IP address anyways). so I would recommended you create an account, log in, as see if differs from a "visitor" account. There may be some sections you cannot view witout being logged in?

I only looked at 3 links, so my "opinion" is based on the small bit of information found or seen on those 3. I am sure there are countries that show more in their commercials than what you would see on "pay per view" shows in the US.
There will be times you will have to decide, based on your own moral and ethical training from your parents (if that occurred?), or what you may have been taught in Sunday School before the Church service, or perhaps even at Boy Scouts or other groups or organizations that are still allowed to teach such things as "moral and ethical thinking".

Continue to research sites you may think of "questionable" through search engines, reading the "fine print" in the "Terms and Conditions" of sites you can feel comfortable watchiing on your computer screen.

Specifically, in a small search, Hula.com meets your requirements, and hopefully others who feel the same as you can offer other links to legit websites. As far as a list of websites, go to google and enter "legal streaming TV or Movies websites" One site I looked at, had an excellent statement concerning watching legal TV shows, or movies released on DVD, was from "www.Graboid.com". After downloading their software (which some sites require), and clicking to their Legal, Copyright Policy... http://www.graboid.c...pyright-policy:

We believe that all copyright holders deserve proper compensation for viewing or listening or sensing of their works. Otherwise they won’t create great new works, and we’ll all be worse off for it.

Please note that Graboid does not host any files other than commentary from users of our software. Per our terms of use, all such commentary is the property of Graboid, and the copyrights to such works belong to us.

Please direct any communications to:

Graboid Inc.
755 Griffith Court, Unit 1
Burlington, ON
L7L 5R9, Canada

I hope that helped to answer your questions shawbroth? I'm off to see what hoops and loops I must jump through to get my prize from visiting their site, a new Blackberry Cell Phone! Yippee! Christmas comes a couple days early. Yeah... right. Ha ha ha!!!

Bumblefoot

[Bumblefoot]

Hi shawbroth.

I did a quick search on google for "Streaming TV or Movies", and found pages upon pages of websites of streaming TV and/or movies. The first one listed, www.hula.com did not seem to have any legal disclaimer, and to see if anything would come up stating I am watching this show illegally, I clicked on an episode of "Family Guy" I saw nothing of any such warning at all. Another search, for location of hula.com brought up this, from June of 2004...

Hula.com Launches in Beta today

NBC and Universal's joint venture Hulu.com has launched in private beta. The new video service will feature premium video content delivered over a Flash-based web interface, and is already being syndicated to sites such as video.aol.com. First impressions have been positive, and Hulu allows you to embed content into other websites. As a private beta, access to the site appears to be limited, but the embedded player allows you to browse other content.

At present it appears the contents are ad-supported, with very short ads playing at designated times during playback. Ads are noted on the timeline as small dots. Looks legal to me to watch the content provided.

Site #2, www.surfthechannel.com and site #3, www.surfthechannel.com, both have posted under Terms and Conditions, a FAQ link, that displays the legality of their respective links...

Governing Law

"The governing law will be that of Sweden, the country in which this site is based and from which all services are provided."

I do not know of any law that prohibits users from viewing programs from another country. A big problem I see which will occur is the fact "rating of shows" differ in other countries, and how to keep the kids off the computer, a job that is hard enough with shows on the "big" networks in the US. Not that I watch them, but the "soaps" of today might have a high R rating compared to "Father Knows Best", or "Leave It To Beaver" some 40 years ago. Gee Wally, do you think we should sneak in and watch TV, even when Mom & Dad told us not to? Aww Beaver, don't be a wimp. It's only a cartoon called South Park. Ahhh the days of "rabbit ears" AND no remote controls! How did we survive them?

The few minutes of "Family Guy" O watched were in english, and not swedish, and all 3 do not demand you register to watch, but have a link where you can create an account. (people know "who you are" by your "fingerprint" or IP address anyways). so I would recommended you create an account, log in, as see if differs from a "visitor" account. There may be some sections you cannot view witout being logged in?

I only looked at 3 links, so my "opinion" is based on the small bit of information found or seen on those 3. I am sure there are countries that show more in their commercials than what you would see on "pay per view" shows in the US.
There will be times you will have to decide, based on your own moral and ethical training from your parents (if that occurred?), or what you may have been taught in Sunday School before the Church service, or perhaps even at Boy Scouts or other groups or organizations that are still allowed to teach such things as "moral and ethical thinking".

Continue to research sites you may think of "questionable" through search engines, reading the "fine print" in the "Terms and Conditions" of sites you can feel comfortable watchiing on your computer screen.

Specifically, in a small search, Hula.com meets your requirements, and hopefully others who feel the same as you can offer other links to legit websites. As far as a list of websites, go to google and enter "legal streaming TV or Movies websites" One site I looked at, had an excellent statement concerning watching legal TV shows, or movies released on DVD, was from "www.Graboid.com". After downloading their software (which some sites require), and clicking to their Legal, Copyright Policy... http://www.graboid.c...pyright-policy:

We believe that all copyright holders deserve proper compensation for viewing or listening or sensing of their works. Otherwise they won’t create great new works, and we’ll all be worse off for it.

Please note that Graboid does not host any files other than commentary from users of our software. Per our terms of use, all such commentary is the property of Graboid, and the copyrights to such works belong to us.

Please direct any communications to:

Graboid Inc.
755 Griffith Court, Unit 1
Burlington, ON
L7L 5R9, Canada

I hope that helped to answer your questions shawbroth? I'm off to see what hoops and loops I must jump through to get my prize from visiting their site, a new Blackberry Cell Phone! Yippee! Christmas comes a couple days early. Yeah... right. Ha ha ha!!!

Bumblefoot