MetaFilter posts tagged with downloads and movies

Back in my day, we got our movies on shiny little disks, and we liked it!

Horace Rumpole — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:02:12 -0800

Netflix is dead. ...or so claims Robert Scoble (others disagree). Wal-Mart couldn't do it, Amazon couldn't do it; has Verisign produced a Netflix killer?

What you got, Will Vinton?

chinese_fashion — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:35:30 -0800

Since 1994 Claymovie has been producing clay animation movies with kids, adults, teachers, and professionals. Here are some random clips of some of the funnier, unpredictable, unexpected and outrageous moments. Watch the videos and see...you have to click [download movies], then go nuts. The really outrageous ones are at the bottom...try Something in the Taters.

fact check one two

reklaw — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:05:51 -0800

Read-a-long-a-Fahrenheit-9/11. Michael Moore posts six pages of quotes and links to back up his movie. And since he doesn't mind you downloading it, why not watch it on your computer and fact-check his ass as you go?

HeavyTV

crunchland — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:53:56 -0800

HeavyTV screens different full-length movies every week for broadband users. Showing this week: Airheads, Live From Baghdad, Pacific Heights and Extreme Ops.

Gilbert — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:42:49 -0800

Learning from the RIAA's mistakes?
"Seeking to protect movies from the rampant online piracy that afflicts the music industry, five major film studios plan to begin offering today rental feature films that consumers can download from a Web site for a fee." Sounds like at least a step in the right direction, but I still wonder: who watches movies on their computer anyway? Would you rather wait for your 90 minute feature film to download, or just get off your butt and go rent one? (first link is to the NYT)

muckster — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:12:03 -0800

"We're fighting our own terrorist war," says Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. David Rocci conters: "There's a huge difference in what people think copyright is and what the corporations think copyright is. I'm not so sure it's morally wrong for someone to go [see] 'Lord of the Rings' in the theater two or three times and then download it because they like it." (NYT link)

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 13 Oct 2000 07:57:32 -0800

Scour goes bankrupt. Where am I going to get my copy of X-Men the movie now? Don't tell me I have to dust off my FTP client!