Well from my understanding... its not illegal to watch movies because you are not downloading the movies or uploading them (the site is) and are not paying for them. The site its self is probably illegal in most countries that respect copy write laws. As for viewing it, legal, you should be fine... I hope.
Well from my understanding... its not illegal to watch movies because you are not downloading the movies or uploading them (the site is) and are not paying for them. The site its self is probably illegal in most countries that respect copy write laws. As for viewing it, legal, you should be fine... I hope.
Is watching movies on watch-movies.net illegal?
Adding a disclaimer doesn't make something legal.
But yes, it sounds like it ultimately is not legal. You could certainly argue that this specific site is legal, but acquiring the movie via the links it provides is not. The Pirate Bay example from PowerFullMac is dead on.
If I told you where you could get some coke, would that be illegal?
Isn't this site's legality iffy because they don't actually provide illegal content, they just provide people with the means to decide whether or not they want to watch it? I checked it out and all they do is link to external websites where you can watch movies. It's like all-uc.org, or a torrent site. There's nothing illegal on the site; you can still argue that it's in the wrong, but not on concrete, technical grounds.
[Edit] Sorry. Silly post and what I've said has already been said numerous times. I should've read the entire thread first.
On a technical level you are downloading these movies (anything you see on the internet has to be downloaded) and that's not legal.
D'ya really think that would stick in court?
"His computer needed to download it automatically into a TEMPORARY folder so he could view it, so I am suing him!"
Why not sue the internet for needing stuff to be downloaded to be viewed?