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.

While I was more polite about it that that, I think he was a little taken aback 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.

More and more people have been asking us what the best way to download movies online is, and whether it is possible to find a big selection online.

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.

These networks may have some movies, but they also are completely unmonitored, so you never know what you are really downloading ? you can easily catch a virus this way. You never know just what you are downloading from these networks.

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.

You can also choose to use a paid download service. You can find many websites which allow you to download movies on a per-download pricing model. You find the movie you want to download, pay a fee (generally about $10) and can download the movie at high speed over 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 membership-based movie download websites which allow you to download unlimited movies for a onetime fee; usually about $30-$50. You can then download all the movies you want, whenever you want.

These sites are a great alternative to pay per download sites since there is only a onetime fee and unlimited access to an enormous selection of movies. The download speeds are fast and the files are guaranteed to be virus free.

The best of these membership sites will also give you software to burn these movies to DVD so that you aren’t limited to watching them on your computer.

Did my friend find Godzilla?

Yes he did. And I’m pretty confident he won’t be bugging me for a DVD in the future
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!