I got an email from Helen Anderson at brainz.org asking me to mention her article about “How to Download & Watch Free Movies & Video Online”. After I read the article I started to wonder about the real purpose of that article. If it was intended to give the readers a list of source to download videos or watch online movies than in my opinion it is a very poor list. First of all, Youtube, Veoh and Vimeo don’t fit in this context as these services are intended to allow users to deliver their own video content and they are very strict about that especially Youtube. I already covered copyright infringement cases with Youtube. That is the main reason behind the short time limit.
The article lists few online streaming movies providers, covers the most popular P2P clients and bittorrent clients but not the torrent search engines like thepiratebay and Mininova.
The information though about each service is very basic (paid or ads support, high or fairly good quality, availability of movies)
In conclusion, I would like to draw a line between a blog post and an article. An article should be as objective as possible, be based on a research and covers all aspects of the subject in question.