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For the past one hundred plus years numerous people have escaped the daily grind of life via the movie cinema. In fact, the movie cinema has been around in both America and Europe since 1905 when the first nickelodeon theatres sprang into existence (Pellettieri, 2007). Viewing a movie at the local cinema was for many generations a rite of passage for weekend activity. As time has passed movie viewing venues have brought the theatre into our homes via video tapes and Digital Video Disk (commonly know as DVD). However, even with these home viewing venues the viewer still had to go out, or send out to rent the viewing material. But, with the 21st Century now upon us a new venue called online movie downloads has now arrived, and it is steadily becoming the future theatre for viewing film.
It seems the internet has replaced, or augmented so many other previous entertainment technologies. For the past several years people have been able to read their newspapers, and magazines, or......

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