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Hello. I have a question that maybe some computer genius somewhere might hopefully be able to answer for me: I was watching films that are free online, as I thought it would be nice to catch up on some classic epics and maybe some religious films etc, and youtube does not always have everything one needs on there. So I’ve been doing this over the bank holiday weekend. It is nice. I don’t have a TV license anymore and instead watch ondemand - programmes that are in the past - and get movies through the post, but I recently read that in 2014 it became legal for people to watch movies for free online - streamlining them not downloading. The EU ruled in 2014 that this was fine! Now I don’t waste time with computer games but do like movies. And after watching a few, Google said, when I was searching for another classic, that I had to fill in a catchya box as I was misusing the service! And then cheekily gave me a list of their rules and regulations. I thought: what business is it of yours, Google is not the whole internet, mind your own! But am I missing something here? I did not type in the box and instead deleted my cookies, however, I’m too worried to watch anymore movies online now - I did want to watch Star Wars - and even in youtube now the service seemed to not be playing what I was searching for. It is very annoying. Is it maybe because Google doesn’t like the EU telling them what is and what isn’t?! I don’t like monopoly companies and Google is one of them. Do I have to worry or can I go ahead and watch Star Wars for free without concern?

Grrr…red tape…grrr.

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Friardchips, I don’t know what kind of online streaming services you have available in your area, but those are the ones that I would go with to watch TV.

We don’t have cable TV anymore, ourselves. I understand that you have to pay for a license to watch TV there.

If you can watch TV online with some other services where you don’t have to worry about any kind of copyrighted material, but with services that are still legitimate, then I would do something like that.

For example, we have different kinds of online programming that you can watch here through the online TV and movie website called Hulu. If you have something similar to Hulu there, then I would watch TV and movies through them.

Some of the cable companies here will also still allow you to watch their programs directly on their websites, too.
 
oldgraymare2 said:
Friardchips, I don’t know what kind of online streaming services you have available in your area, but those are the ones that I would go with to watch TV.

We don’t have cable TV anymore, ourselves. I understand that you have to pay for a license to watch TV there.

If you can watch TV online with some other services where you don’t have to worry about any kind of copyrighted material, but with services that are still legitimate, then I would do something like that.

For example, we have different kinds of online programming that you can watch here through the online TV and movie website called Hulu. If you have something similar to Hulu there, then I would watch TV and movies through them.

Some of the cable companies here will also still allow you to watch their programs directly on their websites, too.
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Hi! Thanks for posting! Nice to hear from you!

Well, I could access Hulu or one of those more well known services, I might try that. 👍 I’ve been just typing in movies online for free and clicking on links. Maybe not advisable though. Technically, I thought it didn’t matter where I went, as we are not breaching any copyright laws. Not sure how good Hulu and some of those services are with religious epics and films of saints. It would be great to find a resource that dealt more with this kind of film, film/documentary. To get inspired! Google don’t half get to me though, as if it is their business anyway! And yes, we have to pay for live cable/television, so for times I want to watch something, I go to a service called ondemand, which allows the viewer to watch online anything that is not live anymore, without a license! But these are normally episodes made by channel providers, whereas sometimes it is nice to watch an actual film and on regular occasion, and I thought for May it would be great to watch religious epics, but obviously buying them all through my normal postal DVD service can get a bit pricey, so watching free movies online seemed as if it might be a viable option.
 
It’s nice to see you, too! 🙂

I do the same thing as you regarding links for free movies, but you have to be careful. Sometimes you can get a bad link, and you might get malware that way. 😦

I have my browsers set up to give me a warning so that I don’t open up any bad websites.

Anyway, here is a link to a website that has rare movies. It is called Archive.org.

I have gone here myself to watch movies. It is fun to look around here. They have some interesting old silent movies, too. I hope that you will be able to access it from your area, where you can watch the movies and TV shows that are on it, if you are interested in watching any of them. 🙂

Here is the link to the website:

archive.org/

I am editing my post to add in that you can still try and see what is available on YouTube for viewing.

They will usually take down anything that is in copyright violation. Sometimes I don’t know what is available myself for public domain viewing. I try to be careful of this myself.
 
friardchips said:
Hello. I have a question that maybe some computer genius somewhere might hopefully be able to answer for me: I was watching films that are free online, as I thought it would be nice to catch up on some classic epics and maybe some religious films etc, and youtube does not always have everything one needs on there. So I’ve been doing this over the bank holiday weekend. It is nice. I don’t have a TV license anymore and instead watch ondemand - programmes that are in the past - and get movies through the post, but I recently read that in 2014 it became legal for people to watch movies for free online - streamlining them not downloading. The EU ruled in 2014 that this was fine! Now I don’t waste time with computer games but do like movies. And after watching a few, Google said, when I was searching for another classic, that I had to fill in a catchya box as I was misusing the service! And then cheekily gave me a list of their rules and regulations. I thought: what business is it of yours, Google is not the whole internet, mind your own! But am I missing something here? I did not type in the box and instead deleted my cookies, however, I’m too worried to watch anymore movies online now - I did want to watch Star Wars - and even in youtube now the service seemed to not be playing what I was searching for. It is very annoying. Is it maybe because Google doesn’t like the EU telling them what is and what isn’t?! I don’t like monopoly companies and Google is one of them. Do I have to worry or can I go ahead and watch Star Wars for free without concern?

Grrr…red tape…grrr.

🙂
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I have a few questions for you. Firstly, what is the EU? and secondly I’ve never heard that it was legal to stream movies online? Isn’t that piracy and isn’t watching something you haven’t paid for technically stealing? I’m not trying to be rude, I honestly want to know the answers but it seems sketchy to me.
 
friardchips said:
Hello. I have a question that maybe some computer genius somewhere might hopefully be able to answer for me: I was watching films that are free online, as I thought it would be nice to catch up on some classic epics and maybe some religious films etc, and youtube does not always have everything one needs on there. So I’ve been doing this over the bank holiday weekend. It is nice. I don’t have a TV license anymore and instead watch ondemand - programmes that are in the past - and get movies through the post, but I recently read that in 2014 it became legal for people to watch movies for free online - streamlining them not downloading. The EU ruled in 2014 that this was fine! Now I don’t waste time with computer games but do like movies. And after watching a few, Google said, when I was searching for another classic, that I had to fill in a catchya box as I was misusing the service! And then cheekily gave me a list of their rules and regulations. I thought: what business is it of yours, Google is not the whole internet, mind your own! But am I missing something here? I did not type in the box and instead deleted my cookies, however, I’m too worried to watch anymore movies online now - I did want to watch Star Wars - and even in youtube now the service seemed to not be playing what I was searching for. It is very annoying. Is it maybe because Google doesn’t like the EU telling them what is and what isn’t?! I don’t like monopoly companies and Google is one of them. Do I have to worry or can I go ahead and watch Star Wars for free without concern?

Grrr…red tape…grrr.

🙂
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People are getting wise to Youtube and it is getting harder to access movies without signing up with some service. Have you tried Archive.org. They have a lot of old movies, mostly " B " movies but still very good. You should still be able to get a lot of DVDs at the library. And you can haunt the ’ jumble ’ sales and estate sales and yard sales. Lots of times you can pick up good ones for nothing. When my brother passed, my sister-in-law donated all his DVDs to the local thrift shop. It was about 200 movies all tolled.

Linus2nd
 
Hi Linus,

I just posted about Archive.org. Yes, one has to be careful about copyright violations. I just mentioned that in my last post.

Dancer, there are legitimate websites for watching TV shows and movies on-line. That is what friardchips and I are posting about. We are not talking about anything illegitimate. We are talking about legitimate websites like Hulu, and I was also letting him know about Archive.org, which Linus and I both mentioned as another source for old movies and TV shows.
 
Try you local Library, they network with all the other Libraries in your region
and this gives you a greater choice of movies to choose from.
I search my library’s list online and order what DVD I would like to watch,
or Book I would like to read. Just by using my Library card.
When they are ready to be picked up I get a pre-recorded phone call
telling me I have 2 (or however many) items ready to be picked up.

I pick them up, take them home and watch them once or twice over the next fortnight,
then I take them back and pick up the next lot.
It’s free and you don’t end up owning 100 DVD’s you don’t like.
You also don’t use up you Internet download amount,
nor do you get any computer viruses or Google demands.

:tiphat:
 
First let me say that filling out a catchya every time you have to Google something is odd… Are you using a proxy? Are there lots of other people on your network? Are you googling hundreds of things per minute? Because just googling something as far as I know won’t make Google force you to fill out a catchya.

Anyway’s. There are a plethora of ways you can watch movies one way is to use a program called Popcorn Time it lets you stream movies on your computer or tablet/phone. Although I’m not sure you can access it in the UK, Or you could use torrents, and USENET. Which is actually safer than using shady streaming services.
 
oldgraymare2 said:
Hi Linus,

I just posted about Archive.org. Yes, one has to be careful about copyright violations. I just mentioned that in my last post.

Dancer, there are legitimate websites for watching TV shows and movies on-line. That is what friardchips and I are posting about. We are not talking about anything illegitimate. We are talking about legitimate websites like Hulu, and I was also letting him know about Archive.org, which Linus and I both mentioned as another source for old movies and TV shows.
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I’m still running XP and apparently Archive.org no longer supports it. I’m having the same problem with other web sites, mostly new sites and other information sites. I can’t even use the new Yahoo e-mail. Grrrr.

Linus2nd
 
Dancer1409 said:
I have a few questions for you. Firstly, what is the EU? and secondly I’ve never heard that it was legal to stream movies online? Isn’t that piracy and isn’t watching something you haven’t paid for technically stealing? I’m not trying to be rude, I honestly want to know the answers but it seems sketchy to me.
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Good question, IMO. The EU said in 2014 that it is the website owner who is posting that is responsible for anything that might be breaching copyright. I believe this is the right way around. I am tired of the government always targeting the users instead of going a little further and following those who are actively uploading. In terms of the everyday user watching something that might be a breach of copyright in terms of the film being up there in the first place, well surely, this is a matter for those who own those films to make it their responsibility to go after the website owners and make it clear that the rights are not for online free usage. It is very hard to tell at times what is and what isn’t copyrighted. And to be honest, in the meantime, I am not crying over the fury of billionaire film companies who own the rights. I am a believer that music artists should have their rights protected more stringently. But again, it is the big monopoly companies that make most of the money. I found this for one: putlocker - not sure if it is okay. I wanted to watch, it was there, so I used it. Thieving - hmm. Seems a bit heavy and overly scrupulous if one is not breaking any law. Though I would encourage being careful with copyright, nevertheless. More careful, in hindsight, than I was! 😃

Still, it is nothing to do with Google, except that I was searching via their online engine, but if they are going to monopolise the whole area of a market, what do they expect.
 
Linusthe2nd said:
I’m still running XP and apparently Archive.org no longer supports it. I’m having the same problem with other web sites, mostly new sites and other information sites. I can’t even use the new Yahoo e-mail. Grrrr.

Linus2nd
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Hi! Thanks for your posts! I have Windows 7. Maybe Archive.org will work for that. You could change your operating system to Win 7 over from XP.
 
BackHand said:
First let me say that filling out a catchya every time you have to Google something is odd… Are you using a proxy? Are there lots of other people on your network? Are you googling hundreds of things per minute? Because just googling something as far as I know won’t make Google force you to fill out a catchya.

Anyway’s. There are a plethora of ways you can watch movies one way is to use a program called Popcorn Time it lets you stream movies on your computer or tablet/phone. Although I’m not sure you can access it in the UK, Or you could use torrents, and USENET. Which is actually safer than using shady streaming services.
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Hi there. Thanks. Well, I used a proxy sometimes a while ago, when I could be bothered - Startpage - but the problem with this is that it looks iffy to the Service provider, who are Talk Talk (say no more). So now I am not using SP. (I think the NSA are a moral WRONG and they stink of totalitarian, scheming FBI-esque paranoia, btw :cool:). However, I am getting over having an issue with the NSA and relenting to using Google anyway. :rolleyes: I have never had to fill in a Catchya box. It is only after typing in “free movies to watch online” this last weekend and then watching online for a few days that I then received this. So the timing suggests they are taking issue with streaming, not proxies. It also suggests of the service provider whinging to internet companies about customers using bandwidth. I am not sure how using a proxy could trigger a reaction from Google anyway if one is bypassing them. Either way, all too complicated for me.

They sent me this: google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/terms/regional.html

I don’t know. I think it is about usage of streaming. They want to find out if I am a program rather than a human. Agent Smith. Maybe they think I was uploading or downloading, not streaming, which I wasn’t.
 
Purgatory_Pete said:
Try you local Library, they network with all the other Libraries in your region
and this gives you a greater choice of movies to choose from.
I search my library’s list online and order what DVD I would like to watch,
or Book I would like to read. Just by using my Library card.
When they are ready to be picked up I get a pre-recorded phone call
telling me I have 2 (or however many) items ready to be picked up.

I pick them up, take them home and watch them once or twice over the next fortnight,
then I take them back and pick up the next lot.
It’s free and you don’t end up owning 100 DVD’s you don’t like.
You also don’t use up you Internet download amount,
nor do you get any computer viruses or Google demands.

:tiphat:
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Hi! This is actually a really great idea. Not sure if our local library charges for DVD rental (cheeky I know and kind of does away with the whole point of a library; nonetheless, I will check). Plus, don’t forget that it might be unlikely to find a religious film in a secular-council library. But I might be happily surprised. Never know until I try! And thank you for your post!
 
oldgraymare2 said:
Hi Linus,

I just posted about Archive.org. Yes, one has to be careful about copyright violations. I just mentioned that in my last post.

Dancer, there are legitimate websites for watching TV shows and movies on-line. That is what friardchips and I are posting about. We are not talking about anything illegitimate. We are talking about legitimate websites like Hulu, and I was also letting him know about Archive.org, which Linus and I both mentioned as another source for old movies and TV shows.
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Thank you, I will try Archive.org. and see what they have listed. Certainly, I’ll be careful after the warning from Google, to make sure any site is recommended as being legit. In all honesty, I didn’t go into it caring enough to find out, I just thought: it is not illegal, I want to watch something, ooh, look there it is…press PLAY! 😃 Maybe a tad irresponsible. But I had a craving to watch classics. What can I say! And wanted to further try out our HDMI cable. The more power is shared amongst smaller companies rather than just the monopoly players, such as Google and for television, the BBC, in my opinion, the better. For the greater good.
 
oldgraymare2 said:
It’s nice to see you, too! 🙂

I do the same thing as you regarding links for free movies, but you have to be careful. Sometimes you can get a bad link, and you might get malware that way. 😦

I have my browsers set up to give me a warning so that I don’t open up any bad websites.

Anyway, here is a link to a website that has rare movies. It is called Archive.org.

I have gone here myself to watch movies. It is fun to look around here. They have some interesting old silent movies, too. I hope that you will be able to access it from your area, where you can watch the movies and TV shows that are on it, if you are interested in watching any of them. 🙂

Here is the link to the website:

archive.org/

I am editing my post to add in that you can still try and see what is available on YouTube for viewing.

They will usually take down anything that is in copyright violation. Sometimes I don’t know what is available myself for public domain viewing. I try to be careful of this myself.
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🙂 Also, there is of course, the option of simply sticking to youtube and putting up with their selection, as you said. And this would prevent getting malware, which is always a massive risk with unknown sites. Malware could be likened to Catholics who dabble in New Age cult practices and reap the reward of the world (if it is an unknown then don’t go there! ). As St. Thomas said (most likely didn’t really say) in ‘A Man For All Seasons’: “Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?”
 
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