Post by Idle Thoughts on Jan 15, 2008 14:52:54 GMT -5
First things first: This is perfectly legal. Well, at least I'm pretty sure. I am PAYING for this service already (and trust me, it's not cheap)...so this isn't a site where you can download and watch free movies and TV shows just for nothing. It is getting paid for. By me. I'm just choosing to share it with others. I don't think that's illegal in itself because I pay for my apartment too yet others visit and stay sometimes and I pay for my cats yet others get to pet and play with them.
As far as I see it, it's not any different from a person paying for digital cable and then letting his neighbors come over and have Friends and Family Night or something like that or watching the big game on one set. You let your friends watch your cable on your TV. As far as I know, there's nothing wrong with that,..but I could be wrong. *shrugs*
But anyway, I'm with Netflix. I'm on the eight at a time plan. That's the highest (and most expensive) one they have. Along with having eight movies at any time, they also allow you to watch movies INSTANTLY on their site (all it requires is a download of some of their software--sorta like their version of Media Player). For the price of the eight at a time plan, I have.....unlimited hours of instant watching. It used to be 48 hours, but they recently changed it to unlimited. Doesn't matter, though, the hours are as unused as they were when they were 48.
I don't watch them on my PC. I can't, really, since my PC is a load of crap. So the limited hours before (each month) were just wasted and the unlimited hours now won't be used either.
So I was thinking..... a few things actually...
..First, that I trust just about everyone here at this site. I was thinking about making this topic at StraightDope, but first, I figured "But there are a lot of people there I don't know" and second I thought "The staff there might close the topic down anyway". But here, I know a lot of you and granted it's not EXTREMELY well, it's enough for me to trust you all to a certain degree. Nay, I've played and talked to some of you for a long time now and I would trust most of you not to screw with anything in my account (doesn't matter anyway, because I can get it back--thus is the power of the credit card holder).
And secondly, there's not a whole lot of regulars here. I'd say about, give or take, 25 or 30 regulars come here and I doubt that even half that will be even remotely interested in using what I'm offering. So I don't have any worries of overuse or being taken advantage of.
So here it is. Since I'm not using it and never will, I wouldn't mind if anyone would like to use my account on there to watch the instant movies on their computer. It works out pretty well because one or two people have already done this (used my account and watched stuff) and they seem to enjoy it. Works out fine. They don't have the largest selection of stuff to watch but hey, it's free, so you can't really complain.
And free it will be from me too. I won't be asking anything of the people who wish to use it. Just the promise that they won't mess with anything in my account and save me the hassle of changing it back.
So anyway, leave your thoughts and opinions here (in this topic) about it and put your requests and askings of using it in PM
As far as I see it, it's not any different from a person paying for digital cable and then letting his neighbors come over and have Friends and Family Night or something like that or watching the big game on one set. You let your friends watch your cable on your TV. As far as I know, there's nothing wrong with that,..but I could be wrong. *shrugs*
But anyway, I'm with Netflix. I'm on the eight at a time plan. That's the highest (and most expensive) one they have. Along with having eight movies at any time, they also allow you to watch movies INSTANTLY on their site (all it requires is a download of some of their software--sorta like their version of Media Player). For the price of the eight at a time plan, I have.....unlimited hours of instant watching. It used to be 48 hours, but they recently changed it to unlimited. Doesn't matter, though, the hours are as unused as they were when they were 48.
I don't watch them on my PC. I can't, really, since my PC is a load of crap. So the limited hours before (each month) were just wasted and the unlimited hours now won't be used either.
So I was thinking..... a few things actually...
..First, that I trust just about everyone here at this site. I was thinking about making this topic at StraightDope, but first, I figured "But there are a lot of people there I don't know" and second I thought "The staff there might close the topic down anyway". But here, I know a lot of you and granted it's not EXTREMELY well, it's enough for me to trust you all to a certain degree. Nay, I've played and talked to some of you for a long time now and I would trust most of you not to screw with anything in my account (doesn't matter anyway, because I can get it back--thus is the power of the credit card holder).
And secondly, there's not a whole lot of regulars here. I'd say about, give or take, 25 or 30 regulars come here and I doubt that even half that will be even remotely interested in using what I'm offering. So I don't have any worries of overuse or being taken advantage of.
So here it is. Since I'm not using it and never will, I wouldn't mind if anyone would like to use my account on there to watch the instant movies on their computer. It works out pretty well because one or two people have already done this (used my account and watched stuff) and they seem to enjoy it. Works out fine. They don't have the largest selection of stuff to watch but hey, it's free, so you can't really complain.
And free it will be from me too. I won't be asking anything of the people who wish to use it. Just the promise that they won't mess with anything in my account and save me the hassle of changing it back.
So anyway, leave your thoughts and opinions here (in this topic) about it and put your requests and askings of using it in PM