[somefellow]

before anybody starts to furiously type that " we do not condone illegal downloading and will delete any/all posts to that effect " ....these are perfectly legal , old films mind you but legal .....Feature Films

[toddsyr]

They even have 2 Popeye cartoons !! At about 300 MB apiece, they take about 1 hour to download with broadband. Dialup? Start them then go to bed. After work tomarrow, they MIGHT be done. I'm not complaing about the time for download at all, just expect to wait. After all, they are free,T.

[JohnWill]

If it takes you an hour to download 300mb, you have pretty slow broadband. 300kbyte/sec gets me that file in about 16 minutes. I'm downloading one from there now, just as an experiment. It's clocking along at 333kbyte/sec right now, and I'm still working in other browser copies with no apparent delays.

[eyal_p]

Great...we all glad to know you have a fast connection...

[dr20]

Thanks somefellow for that link, I never planned on installing Quick Time but it's worth it to watch a few of those old movies.

Here's a link for a whole bunch of streaming video stations as well in case anyone's interested:

http://tv4all.com/portal.htm

[toddsyr]

In response to Johnwill, I guess it might be because I live in a metro area with ALOT of Roadrunner users. In reality, the 300 MB file took about 52 minutes to download. I also had other things going on at the same time, using my antique PC. I'm working on the upgrades as I can afford them. In the mean time, any ideas on speeding up my downloads? I just started using Tuneup utilities 2004 to try and optimize my PC without learning too much all at once. I'm not much for those download accelerators either, just so you know, thanks, T.

[jbcalg]

toddsyr:
could be a variety of things from an overloaded node (ie lots of users) to your windows settings

try this forum for tests, tools and tips: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/tweaks

also a RR forum there: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/cable,rr

somefellow: thanks for the link

[toddsyr]

Thanks jbcalg, will try the tips tomarrow, almost ready for bed. Just so you know, I recently called Roadrunner to find out my download speed, the test they had me run reported me at about 1000kb/second. Of course it was a test site they directed me to. The support person said this was even faster than he gets, but, like I said it was a site they sent me to, and they may be biased. Also like I said, my PC is an antique. Except for huge movie files, I'm very happy with it's internet speed. Besides, I hear in January, my Roadrunner is going from a max of 3 MB/second to 5 MB/second. That should help also, unless my antique is not capable of handling it, T.

[eddie5659]

Hiya

Just had a look, and its seems okay

Who owns the rights to these movies?

Each collection has come from some donor and may impose some restrictions on use and re-use. We are endevouring to make it easy to understand what you can do with these movies, but this is a work-in-progress. Many of the movies and collections are licensed with Creative Commons Licenses. Look for the Creative Commons logo to the left of the screen on a movie's detail page. Click on this link to find out exactley what the permissions are for the particular film. Many other films have the contact information listed for the filmmaker. If the information is provided, feel free to contact the filmaker or organization the film comes from.

http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.ph...44c9a8caf93#49

May have a look myself