justindeimen wrote: Personally, and hopefully without stepping on anybody's toes, the idea of illegally (I'd welcome a legal alternative if it meant I'd never have to sit next to a person with a sneezing fit again) downloading films, especially new ones readily available (or soon to be) on DVDs or cinemas makes me queasy. Though, on the flipside, I can understand cineastes attempting to watch older and rare films in any form they can get their hands on. 

It's coming, a legal alternative, that is (at least for independent and foreign films). The likes of IFC and Magnolia have done well with "day-and-date" releases via VOD, and the next step ideologically is to make the product available online, which I where the consumers are headed. 

It would be pretty embarrassing if someone were to get caught downloading a Rob Schneider movie.