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Sea Moose

Sea Moose

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Hey Guys

I have just worked out how to turn off geoblocking and i want to download shows from the USA legally.

With netflix, can you download shows and save on a hard drive?

If you cant do that are there other online movies and tv sites from USA that allows down load.

I am from Australia and there is not many options to download legally here without paying a fortune.

Not looking to pirate anymore


Thanks me hearties!
 
Hey Brainonska > Thank you for the tip

However i dont want to access Australia as they charge what we call "The Australia Tax"

If you compare prices from US to Aus, we have to give away our firstborn

Foxtel are the worst!
 
So you're looking to capture the data off Netflix and store is locally.

http://www.playlater.tv/

Apparently this software is legal, since it has positioned itself to act like a DVR service. Not sure how well it works, you can look into that yourself.
 
Why download and watch later? Netflix allows you to watch anytime of the day you want. What am I missing here?
 
https://www.netflix.com/TermsOfUse

Netflix Service
  1. You must be 18 years of age, or the age of majority in your province, territory or country, to become a member of the Netflix service. Individuals under the age of 18, or applicable age of majority, may utilize the service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, under such person's account and otherwise subject to these Terms of Use.
  2. The Netflix service, and any content viewed through our service, are for your personal and non-commercial use only. During your Netflix membership, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to access the Netflix service and view movies and TV shows through the service on a streaming-only basis for that purpose. Except for the foregoing limited license, no right, title or interest shall be transferred to you.
  3. You may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such movie or TV show. The content that may be available to watch will vary by geographic location. Netflix will use technologies to verify your geographic location. THE NUMBER OF DEVICES ON WHICH YOU MAY SIMULTANEOUSLY WATCH IS LIMITED. Go to the change plan information in the "Your Account" page to see the number of devices on which you may simultaneously watch. The number of devices available for use and the simultaneous streams may change from time to time at our discretion.
  4. We continually update the Netflix service, including the content library. In addition, we continually test various aspects of our service, including our website, user interfaces, service levels, plans, promotional features, availability of movies and TV shows, delivery and pricing. We reserve the right to, and by using our service you agree that we may, include you in or exclude you from these tests without notice. We reserve the right in our sole and absolute discretion to make changes from time to time and without notice in how we offer and operate our service.
  5. You agree to use the Netflix service, including all features and functionalities associated therewith, in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including public performance limitations or other restrictions on use of the service or content therein. You agree not to archive, download (other than through caching necessary for personal use), reproduce, distribute, modify, display, perform, publish, license, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use (except as explicitly authorized in these Terms of Use) content and information contained on or obtained from or through the Netflix service without express written permission from Netflix or its licensors. You also agree not to: circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections in the Netflix service; use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Netflix service; decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Netflix service; insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Netflix service in any way; or, use any data mining, data gathering or extraction method. In addition, you agree not to upload, post, e-mail or otherwise send or transmit any material designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment associated with the Netflix service, including any software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs.



So I think the answer is probably no. If you get around the goelocation, you're breaking the Netflix terms of service, and thus it's not really any more "legal" than downloading a torrent as you aren't licensed to be receiving that content. If they discover / notice that you're doing so, they can terminate your account without notice / + ban you. Hasn't happened to anyone I know personally, but it's something that you might want to keep in mind.

I don't personally care what you do, but you should know what you're doing if you decide to do that! Doesn't really make much sense to circumvent Netflix geolocation and try to find ways to store its data locally as an alternative to "pirating", as you put it.

There are a lot of places that legally stream content for free directly on their own websites too (Showcase.ca for example), but I don't know about your location necessarily.
 
Hmmm i used the netflix title as i thought netflix was a download service.

So really we have to stream movies and shows we want to watch.
 
Why do you want to download instead of stream? Are you planning to download Netflix's entire library and cancel before the first month is over?
 
Sea Moose said:
Legal down loading is so much harder than torrents!
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ALSO:



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GinormousNG said:
Why download and watch later? Netflix allows you to watch anytime of the day you want. What am I missing here?
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Streaming requires internet.. and stable internet, which not everyone has. It's nice to have an actual file so in the event of an internet outage or if you want to watch in a place that has no internet, you can.
 
Amazon has a video service for streaming and certain titles for download (or thats how it used to work, haven't used it in awhile)
 
mnewsham said:
Amazon has a video service for streaming and certain titles for download (or thats how it used to work, haven't used it in awhile)
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I downloaded a movie or two way back when.

They dont do that anymore. Now they have Prime movies for free but that means you gotta keep signing up for Prime year after year. They like that business model better.
Thats also why they now have Prime music.
 
Sea Moose said:
Legal down loading is so much harder than torrents!
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Yes, because media companies don't want you to have a local copy. Blu Ray taught them even with the best lock they can build a local copy is always at risk, and often good locks get in the way of paying customers.

So instead they all want to "sell" you movies that are stored on their servers, that way the DRM and restrictions can change over time without impacting those who actually pay.

This is why I honestly don't expect to see a 4K Blu Ray.
 
shortylickens said:
I downloaded a movie or two way back when.

They dont do that anymore. Now they have Prime movies for free but that means you gotta keep signing up for Prime year after year. They like that business model better.
Thats also why they now have Prime music.
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You can still download movies from Amazon. You need to pay for the movie and then use their Unbox software. Unbox allows you to download two separate copies before it cuts you off.
Of course they're DRM'ed so you can only play them using WMP or an approved device like the iPad.
 
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