I recently received an email from a friend asking if she could borrow a DVD of “Godzilla”. I wrote back telling her to quit bugging me and just download it.

Ok, maybe I wasn’t quite so harsh. But I think I threw him off at first!

What I meant to tell him is that he didn’t have to go find a DVD; you can find any movie you want if you have an internet connection.

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about what the best ways to download movies online is and also if there are any websites which can boast of a large selection of movies.

First off - yes, the selection of movies online is huge online. You can easily find a movie like Goodfellas, along with all the new releases and movies from the past. You will find a far better selection online than you would in any video store.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about the question so many of you have ? “Where can I download movies online?”

It’s important to say where you shouldn’t go to download movies. Avoid peer-to-peer networks like LimeWire and Kazaa. While these are OK for find music, they are a very poor choice for movies.

When you download a movie from a program like Kazaa, you run a huge risk of getting a virus. It’s an unmonitored website so you never know what you’re downloading.

These networks also suffer from a poor selection and slow download speeds.

Movies are huge files; on these networks, it can take days to download a movie! The selection is also very limited compared to other sources.

There are also paid download sites out there. There are many pay-per-download sites. You can look for the movie you want, pay a fee (about $10, usually) and download the movie quickly on a secure connection.

It’s not a bad option, but there’s a much cheaper way to find and download movies with equal quality.

There are now specialty, membership-based movie download websites that let you download unlimited movies from their database simply by logging in to their website. To become a member, you pay a one-time only fee (about $35-45 usually) and are then able to download movies whenever you want.

The nice thing about this service is that you have the ability to download any movie you want simply for paying the one-time membership fee. The selection is massive and the downloads are both fast and guaranteed to be virus-free.

The best download sites will also provide you with software to burn these movies to DVD so you can watch them on your TV instead of only on your computer.

Did my friend find Godzilla?

She did. And I don’t think she’ll be asking me to loan her any DVDs anytime soon!

With an increasing number of people looking to the web for movie downloads, you’ll see the number of brick and mortar video stores declining. Downloading movies, after all, is easy ? you can find all your favorites without even leaving the house!

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