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- fLUx1337, on 10/10/2007, -6/+67This site is better, far better selection: http://thepiratebay.org
- DeviantSeptum, on 10/10/2007, -4/+61Wow! Now I can have access to ten-thousand copies of 300. I'd be much more interested in Hot Chick Moocher.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43Sure the MPAA would be pleased about this service.
- nico623, on 10/10/2007, -6/+40Anytime I borrow a movie to a 'friend' I never get it back... :'( I miss my copy of Eternal Sunshine..
- theragu40, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20When I moved into my new apartment last year, I loaned Bad Santa and Silence of the Lambs to a guy on the floor above me. I thought it would help me make some friends in my building. What do you know, the next day he gets raging drunk, tries to kill himself (fails), and runs away, never to be seen again. That's a true story, and he still has my goddamn movies, which I"ll never see again.
So I'm not so sure about a site that hooks you up with strangers to loan them your movies. Not saying they'll all be suicidal movie stealing maniacs, but it could happen. - arjie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20I know precisely what you mean! So many people borrow my books and never give them back. It's crazy.
By the way, I think that should be 'lend a movie to a friend'. Just trying to help. - Mohonri, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18They're gonna be outright pissed. Not just because it potentially reduces their revenue, but because THEY CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT. Lending movies back and forth is perfectly legal, as long as you're not making copies.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16NO WAY would I ever loan out my DVDs to anyone. I prefer to have scratch/smudge/jelly free disks thank you very much!!
- doctorfungi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I never get the DVD's I lend out back from my close friends, let alone unknown strangers.
- chicoer2001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I lent a book to a friend in college 3 years ago. Still havent good it back. This doesnt sound like the best idea.
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15How about this - instead of lending out the physical DVDs, why not stream them to the requestor? You'd send your DVDs to the company, and any time you wanted to watch one of them, you'd just stream it. So could anyone else. But not simultaneously. So because you're the only person who sent in the Russian version of Solaris, there's only one copy, only one viewer could watch it at a time.
The movie and music industries are making money on movies and music even when those movies and music are not being actively observed. There's no law that says I can't lend my stuff to anyone I like. All this scenario does is make it so that the movie can be more efficiently used, by allowing it to be lent to anyone who wants to watch it any time of the day or night.
I wonder what the MPAA would have to say about *that.* - kent1146, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Any bets on how long it will be before those greedy pricks at the MPAA try to shut this practice down?
- namnnumbr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14i was involved in the testing for this. great idea, great design.
- themoosejuice, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I do this all the time with torrents. I borrow a few seconds of a movie from 1500 or so people.
- Shawn4168, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14I had a friend in college that did something similar. He had a group of friends that all subscribed to Netflix, and when they got their movies, they made *ahem* backup copies of them. Everybody's movie lists were then hosted on a website where the friends could request to borrow each other's dvds. When a request was made, that person knew to bring that dvd to class the next day. Pretty cool idea, in my opinion. Glad to see something similar has gone mainstream.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10One oft-mentioned statistic I see is that DVD's only survive around 12-15 rentals before they need to be replaced due to scratches. If anyone ever wants to borrow one of my DVD's, I make a backup and let them borrow that. Of course, they're even less likely to return a backup.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The person who called it piracy was responding to the person who suggested using peer-to-peer software... No one suggested borrowing someone's movie was piracy.
- amnesiac096, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8i stopped borrowing a long time ago, cuz people just don't respect other people's property. it's a great idea in theory, but people will stop sharing once they notice their dvd's are snapped in half or scratched beyond belief
- john2kx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7it's well within anyone's right to load a DVD to whoever they want.. the MPAA can get as mad as they want, but they can't really do anything about it.
- wheezy360, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8The bad idea was being friends with that guy.
- thorn101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8The Internet is my friend, I borrow all the movies from him.
- sailadayaway, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Sure they can, you own the license for your dvd, not your friends, didn't you know, the MPAA wants you to buy one copy of each dvd per viewer in your household.
- theragu40, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I'm fairly certain that he knows it's not legal. Nice try though.
- DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8this service is about as good as an idea as just throwing your ***** out a window.
why the fk wouldnt you just rip and burn them a copy .. then you have your original, they have a copy to watch then bin - everyone wins. - neoform, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Wont stop them from trying to shut them down.
- colto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I actually have a neighbor who is a huge movie collector. He has collected 1000s of DVDs(literally I think it is 3000 some odd movies) that he buys for like $1 each from a friend of his that owns the nearby Blockbuster. He has alphabetized all of these and keeps an excel spreadsheet with the title, year, genre, main actors, etc. and prints it out for all of the family friends and neighbors. They call it the "Video Mooch Club" and basically let just about anyone in the neighborhood borrow DVDs whenever they want. It's a super sweet system(for us "moochers" at least) and I think it would work great on a more distributed peer to peer scale.
- nogami, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Not sure what they could do about it - it's like netflix, but without the money.
Pretty good idea actually, but looks like the UI could use some work on the webpage, it looks like a blog, not an application. - shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+510 universities, and University of Connecticut comes up twice, but I'm still giving it the benefit of the doubt and hoping that it is somehow two separate entities. Not really widespread, but it's a fine idea if there's actually a way to enforce returning movies( which doesn't appear to be the case).
And registering your university doesn't look like it would help you much since you'd be the only person in your university for at least as long as it takes for more people to start joining. You probably wouldn't even see any change in ease of mooching until a few months after you registered, since you'd tell your friends, from whom you can already mooch, who would eventually tell some of their non-mutual friends, who would eventually tell their friends... - DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Gosh, I dunno. Maybe if its good, I'll watch it again in a few months, or when friends are over, or to pass on to other people.
For your sake I hope that was a troll. - clubdirthill002, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7The MPAA will have it shut down in less than 30 days. Mark my words.
- Bleue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6How oh how is this piracy? I think too many people have been drinking the cool-aid lately.
Ripping movies to a HDD, or making backups, may be a gray area (absolutely legal BTW, the gray comes from the fact that in order to do so you must bypass the copy protection, or use tools designed to bypass, and that's the illegal part per the DMCA. The actual copying, as long as it's for personal use, is legal) but loaning DVDs is absolutely allowed!!! Renting them, IE asking for money in exchange for the loan, is not allowed unless you are licensed and pay a premium on the movies. But please tell me no one on the planet is thinking that loaning a movie to your friends is piracy, and this is just a more elaborate way to share.
uvamg - Thorox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51. Don't lend the movies, make sure you get a DVD of equal value from the borrower... so if they want their DVD back, they have to return yours. You should be able to enter and track your "swaps" on the website so you know who has what.
2. Lets open this up to pc games, console games, books, etc
3. The MPAA can shut anything down by suing a financially challenged startup. Legal costs alone can bury a new site with no backing. - sparrowkc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5How about talk to your friends.
- knicknut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Blocked at my work as pornography???
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Make sure you wipe off the DVD after you've had your fun.
- pheedback, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Well you might just luck out. A few people might have a copy of the movie.
- yunus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The difference is that what this article talks about is legal. So while it might be something similar, its on a different side of the law.
- DangerStepp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Scratched up discs from people you don't know ftw.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'll bet the MPAA will try to tell you otherwise.
The concept is great but you have to be realistic. The MPAA will NOT appreciate this. I can foresee a take-down letter coming followed by a lawsuit. - Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Oh absolutely, you send a movie, you get to the front of the line whenever you request it. I didn't intend to work out all the details, just to put forward the concept as an observation of the ridiculousness of the current business plan of entertainment media companies.
- DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I spose he's a regular human, rather than a database engineer.
Shout out to all my fellow humans ! DB-Eng's can go fk'yrself - picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I would share but really only to people that I know or see on a daily basis- not to some stranger who'll ruin my movie
- cybertaur1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4UConn comes up twice because there are two separate email addresses associated with it. The Colleges page lists colleges with their email addresses.
- Alex.w, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There was a service like this, it was modelled around a lending library. They buy say five copies of a DVD so they could stream them to five viewers at once. Needless to say it got shut down...
- w1bmw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I was being facetious my own self, as much of a great idea as it sounds, I can't see it getting past the legal hurdles
- w1bmw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Add to this that whoever sent the movie gets priority to watch it. If I send up my Girls Gone Wild Lesbian House Party, I don't want to have to wait 'til someone else is done before I can spank out a batch.
- junaru, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4C&D in 3 2 1 ....
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Then, borrow something from your friend. ;)
- tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i tried downloading movies from the axxo account, a lot of the older ones dont have enough seeders and with the exception of his account theres barely any selection from other people. thepiratebay is useful, but it's still no where near as convenient or as diverse in range as netflix or brick and mortar rent stores.
- cr0m300, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Simple but fantastic idea. I just signed up my school and entered in my DVD collection. Hopefully it'll take off.
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