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...unlike most people, who pay an extra $13 a month on their cable bills to get HBO, which carries the show (and is owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner), Chaplin gets her Sex and the City free. Using a program called Morpheus, she goes online and downloads any episode she wants in as little as 10 minutes. Then she watches her haul on the computer. "I know it's not legal," the college sophomore says, "but it's easier for me to download than it is to get HBO or cable...
...enjoying a virtual free-for-all. Necratog (who asked to be identified by his screen name only) is the first link in a chain that supplies digitized copies of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to an online chat room and a website that get as many as 1,500 downloads a week. Not to be confused with the many "leechers" (people who only download shows), he's a "capper" (someone who captures a TV show, digitizes it and sends it out to others...
...show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...
...site provides only streaming video, but hackers are constantly trying to download the films. "We try not to let people download movies because downloading takes up a higher amount of bandwidth," says Tan. "Also, we don't want people to download the movies and sell them on the street. That's what happened in Taiwan with Napster - all the college students started selling CDs on the street of songs they downloaded off the internet. We don't want people to do that with our movies. We want to broadcast them so people can watch them...
...long as we are operating under the laws of the Republic of China (Taiwan), we don't need to go to other companies," says Tan. "This is not like Napster because people cannot download the movies. We just want people to be able to watch movies online. These Internet movies do not compare to the quality you see in the cinema or the theater. We are not trying to get business from Hollywood. I don't like watching movies online. If I like a movie that I see on the site, I'll go buy the DVD and bring...