It is not clear what you want.
I want more movies on my 320 Gb external hard drive, downloaded from a legitimate movie download source, and after the 320 is full I want to start filling up other Hd's I have, and on, and on. Bless the fine work of the hard drive guru's for the ability to store unlimited amounts of data.
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You have lots of movies already on a hard drive and you want to keep them.
Correct.
It becomes a problem if you distribute the immaterial in any way.
That's not the issue here. I have no intentions of distribution other than a few family members, and/or some friends viewing these movies at my house. I'm aware of the policy concerning non legal/--- information on this forum. I've been here since 2006 and caused some headaches, but non due to any illegal, shady, piracy ect.
But why keep movies you have already seen?
Because I like to see movies i like more than once, or twice, or three times - heck, 13 times for "a particular John Grisham flick" and more times than that for....
You can get an account with Net Flicks and watch from a library of several thousand popular movies. It appears to be legal. They openly advertise on TV here in the USA.
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(New customers only.)
I'm aware of Netflix. I researched their site, contacted online customer service and talked to Support live via 1--866....
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