Free Online Movies From China

An interesting thing has happened online recently. Since Russian music website allofmp3.com was shut down after infringing copywrite laws a new type of site has emerged copying the success of youtube but playing the most up to date movies straight to your desktop.

http://www.watch-movies.net is a Chinese site that seems to pull in content from video sources across China and link them to a massive movie database. You can watch old films from the past (I watch a bit of The Running Man the other day) to films that have possibly not made it into your cinemas yet.

Some of the films are dodgy handy-cam screeners, but to some people a free film is a free film. You have the option of voting on the quality of the stream, and to leave a review of the film.

The film industry has had it good over the years with the music industry losing out to illegal downloading. For the film industry the is a sting in the tale for this type of technology, like youtube the viewer only streams the content there is no downloads and subsequent owning of illegal material.

With broadband getting faster and faster, with technology making it easier to push streaming content to multiple devices and countries that do not recognise or police copywrite infringement the movie and music industries must be quaking in their boots.

Please feel free to post your opinion of watch-movies.net and the future of online media.

posted by powderdust @ 12:58:00