The MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America – compiled a list of legal movie websites and published it on their website with the title Legal options to Pirates. I’m not sure if they mean that non-Pirates may not use those services, guess it’s just aimed at Pirates. They have divided the list into Legal Downloads and Buy or Rent Movies.
They do have a huge problem with linking to the sites mentioned on their website because all links lead to not found when I tried them. That is because they have added their address in front of the address of the website that they recommend. Besides that they list Unbox and Walmart in the Legal Downloads category which provide downloads after you purchase them.
A better place for these two – and others – would probably have been the Buy or Rent Movies category. Actually, several other websites mentioned in their legal downloads section are pay before download websites who probably offer a freebie every now and then.
Enough of the criticism. The effort is worth noting. I’m not sure if this is the first time the MPAA did try to offer alternatives (some free) instead of just suing and lobbying against Pirates. If you are a regular Internet user you know those websites already but it could be nice for some who just begin to use the Internet.
If they could fix the Pay / Free distinction they could create a valuable resource.
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