Demand for free movies online without downloading increases

Nope, what is ruining the movie industry are the inflated salaries für overrated actors and studio execs combined with hollywoods disregard for talented writers.

The movies I can understand, the TV shows that can’t be seen in a different region I cannot. Afterall if the company doesn’t intend to Market a particular tv show in a certain region then there’s no harm in allowing a region to see it for free. It could even be a good thing to help gauge how popular a show would be in a particular region. But going back to the movie industry for a moment, each major studio needs to realise there is more to this downloading just because it’s avalible to a user. The cost of buying a movie in the UK is ridiculous, the other day I saw the Picard movie up retailing at £15.99 in a major uk supermarket. That to me is as criminal as stealing the film I mean that kind of money could feed a person for a good few days!!

I was ninjavideo user and to be honest I used it mostly to watch TV shows which were not available in the UK or were on a channels that that I did not have access to with my cable contract. Also I saw shows that I might have missed, or caught up on entire seasons of a show I missed first time round.

I don't see any problem with watching/streaming/downloading shows once they have been aired – and the bonus of this is that the less well know shows get talked about, blogged about everywhere in the world not just in the country of release.
If its positive talk this will have the effect of increasing the shows appeal and maybe getting a region to buy and air the show.

I work in the film and TV industry and I think the industry is just getting greedy and enjoys to moan and blame the failure of bad movies and bad TV ratings on web users. Just like the music industry went on about album sale dips because of file sharing.
Well they need to wake up and get with what's going on. The web is here to stay, files will always be copied just like people made tape copies back in the 80's. It will NOT kill the industry it will if anything make it harder for people to turn out crap and expect people to watch and listen to it.
If a studio turns out a dud film people will review online and tell people it's rubbish. Why they expect people to go to the cinema and pay £10 to see a poorly produced and directed film is beyond me. In fact Ninjavideo quite often had DVD rips of the low end films and if I was the studio I would be glad of any exposure they got at all.

AND PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS GO TO THE MOVIES , seeing a crap cam-copy of toy story is just for geeks who like to say they've seen it first, people will go and see a GOOD movie, its up to the studios to produce them.

So is it right or wrong to stream other people content? well of course legally it's wrong, but what a dull world we would live in if programmes were made and only aired in chosen countries, let alone the fact that some boring TV commisioner is flown out by a channel to choose what content they think the nation wants to see on their screens, that's like sending out one person to order takeout for a whole city!!

Sites like ninja gave people a choice of what they wanted to watch, where they wanted to watch and when they wanted to watch it.
VOD site works to a degree but it still means if I want to watch Treme from HBO and I'm in the UK , no chance, will a UK broadcaster show it? maybe, but when, christmas?
I want to watch it when it first airs or just after so ninja gave me that option. If HBO had international subscriptions and would stream it Ad free for a $1 an episode then I would have happy signed up.

RIP Ninjavideo

Box-office records are broken every year, I don't think sites like this are doing much harm to the Movie Industry.

All this action will do is create the demand for new sites that the US cant take down It is impossible to stop the free flow of information on the internet, big brother will try and try and will always fail! Most of the movies I have downloaded, if they are anygood, I have gone to view them on the big screen -Avatar I have downloaded – I have also seen it 4 times in 3d.

This balanced action may not be the norm, but what is obvious is that copyright law need to be sent back to the drawing board! 90% of what is produced theses days is total brain dead crap anyway! The US Gov kissing the ass of media moguls that pay there campaigns! Its a joke!

Food for thought, I wonder how many allied troops in Iraq and Afghanistan used these on line sites to kick back and relax on there own time?

Ninjavideo was the best site for years. The quiality of streams, the absence of repeated ads every ten minutes, and the occassional gem of a documentary which i would never have noticed, have been food since i discovered it.

A sad day for the internet.

Respect and gratitude to Phara, Wadswerth, Cree8 and all at Ninja.

RIP Nijnavideo

Im So in with Danielle on this one.. i mean they are free tv-shows.. and im from germany.. how am i supposed to get them streamd here or anywhere.. i sometimes cant even watch some youtube vids cause of the region.. its really sad.. and i hope that the TV section will come up again!!!
NINJAVIDEO!!..Rip?.. bhaha never!!

What works about this form of Piracy is I can see so many movies and TV shows at no cost to me. Now, if any other 'pirates' are like me, which I am betting they are, they wouldn't pay for 95% of what they watch online meaning that a lot of movies and television shows wouldn't be seen by thousands of people and might never be seen.

There are tons of great movies and TV shows I haven't seen because I haven't had the opportunity to see them for free. What Hollywood doesn't understand is that by trying to end piracy, they aren't going to be receiving any more money than before. In fact, I think they will receive LESS money because they are losing viewers, which are powerful advertisers in themselves. Viewers that didn't pay, but viewers who tell other people "watch this show/movie!" who may actually pay.

Half the shit Hollywood puts out there sucks anyways, they should pay ME for some of the shit I've sat through.

I must admitt i have watched a few movies on NV funny thing is if the movie was good i went out and bought the blueray coppy anyway… but probably wouldnt of done without a preview as the costs are so high…i wouldnt want to waste cash on a bad film

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Not to mention I have watched movies on NV that I was unable to get to a theater for but I then recommend it to family and get tons of my friends to go see it in a theater. It's called promoting the movies. I used to be a successful local radio dj so I have plenty of friends and believe me, they trust my movie savvy.
In fact in a stroke of irony I find it interesting that as a radio dj I was allowed to see the movies in theaters for free (while employed) and then talk about and promote them in the same manner it to friends and family, just a different avenue.
I also liked one of the other writers comment about watching Avatar (or New Moon) on NV but still going to see it in theaters, I too went out to see Avatar in 3D ($11.50 just for ticket) which I would not have paid had I not seen how worth the film was on NV first

Honestly, I hardly used NinjaVideo for movies. I have a huge blu ray/dvd collection in which every single disc is paid for, and I continue to go to the theater to see them on the big screen. When I have downloaded a film, it's usually been as a screening to see whether or not the film actually deserves my money. At ticket prices sometimes near $15-16, you can be damn sure that I'm being choosy when it comes to what I want to give my hard earned money to.

However, cams and screeners more often than not look and sound like garbage, so why would I waste my time watching those? What NinjaVideo provided to me, as a user, was a way to catch a multitude of television programming as well as hard to find documentaries that I otherwise would never have been able to view (at least in the same streaming quality that NinjaVideo provided).

If anyone thinks for a second that taking down those sites will make a dent in internet piracy, they're in for a rude awakening. I can, at will, go through my bookmarks list to find any number of warez and torrent sites and find whatever it is I am inclined to watch. And I'd venture to guess that if any of those went down as well, I'd be able to find even more. Does that mean that I will stop paying to watch movies, be it through my home entertainment center or at the cinema? Absolutely not. But people forget that those of us living outside of the United States don't have it as good as those that do. Programming can be very limited.

So what has shutting down sites like NinjaVideo accomplished? Not a whole lot. As I said before, there are tons of other websites and resources at users' fingertips should they continue to "pirate" content. It will never be stopped, and anyone who deludes themselves into thinking that it's a "war" and that it can be won needs to take a step back and breathe in some reality. What should happen is that networks and studios need to embrace these new forms of media delivery, and offer the same quality media to users that NinjaVideo did. There are no regions on the internet. It is not and can never be owned by any one entity. Users, pirates, people: they're everywhere, and they won't be stopped from getting what they want, and how and when they want it. Studios want to stem their losses? Join us. Stop limiting what they offer and who they offer it to.

I would gladly pay for a service like NinjaVideo provided, yet they never asked for a penny. They made no money of of what they made available. It was a community of sharing, and I'm looking forward to the day that it returns. Whether it's hand in hand with those who tried to snuff it out, leading the way in a new form of media, or out from the ashes, even stronger, will just have to wait to be seen.

The website watchmovies(dot)net appears to have changed to a phising site, lotta popups, no actual movies, claims you can watch movies that won't be out yet for years!

Pity. I usually decided if a film was "theater worthy" by watching the crappy online version. If I hafta actually waste God's Precious Bandwidth ta download it, I sure won't be payin again to watch in the theater.

First of all I have stopped going to watch or buy movies because I am sick of having to hear about what what all the actors think about political stuff. If I want to hear about that stuff I will research it or catch a news program. I don't go to my dentist to get advice about my car problems so i say to holly wood in general is shut the fuck up and dance like the circus monkey you are your job is to entertain me not educate me. I also watch TV shows from other countries like TOP GEAR, Every thing is getting too expensive and the quality of movies are getting worse so you can bet your ass I will watch them on the net first before I go buy them. I will not pay for cable either. You have to buy two hundred channels of which I only watched four of them. If hulu or net flix offered half of what Ninja did I would gladly pay for them, but they don't seem to get what the public wants. Instead what they do is piracy, forcing us to get what they offer instead of offering what we want. They are slitting their own throats because we have found a way to get out from underneath their thumbs, so now their using the politicians that are in their pockets to raid sites like Ninja. But what do you expect from a politician from Illinois, AKA obama. So many other pressing concerns in these times but what are they cracking down on? People downloading videos.

people should not pirate movies of line that takes away from the theaters and other people that put time and effort in to the movie and that when u have to wait for the movie to come out that just makes u want to watch that even more and all that is is that people feel that just cause u can do something doesnt make it. when people feel that they can do that it also takes away from the money to make that next one and that no one likes