Graboid Replacement of TvLinks and Illegal Torrents?
October 21, 2007
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After the sad news that TvLinks have been shut down and arrested the owner I have been looking further about this issue and see if there is a similar site that offer and claim that is Legal. In this case Graboid came to my mind and did a short interview with them to re-assure that they claim that they are legal and some other issues. The following questions have been asked:
- Q. What is Graboid?
- Q. How Graboid is different from your competitors?
- Q. Graboid do indeed offer free access to a massive library of very high-quality streaming movies and tv shows. However, I have no understanding of how this is possible in so many different ways. One being from the technological standpoint, how can one user just simply search what show/movie they want to watch, double click it and it starts streaming an SD, or even in some cases an HD stream directly to your computer with very minimal load times. Where is it coming from? If Graboid does not host it, who does?
- Here is the question that many Graboid members ask themselfs and is listed in the FAQ, is graboid legal? Can you explain it more in deep with some proofs?
- Is that true that your plugin player has a spyware?
- Is Graboid available for MAC users or Linux?
- How you compare Graboid vs Torrents?
- Can users download the movies and not streaming them? If yes, can they use a third-party download manager like Getright?
- What type of conection Graboid needs? (You know some people still use Modems).
and their answers:
Graboid is a software application that finds movies and tv shows on the internet. While there are many sites that offer some free content, here is what differentiates Graboid:
1) All files can be streamed OR downloaded (torrents cannot stream to give instant access)
2) We have the largest selection
3) We have the highest quality (no grainy video like YouTube)
4) Our download speeds are stunningly fast
As for where the files are posted, it is in many different places. The files are posted by people not affiliated with Graboid on servers around the world. Graboid‘s service does not violate any laws in any country (that we know of). The people posting these files are doing it to promote the work of artists they admire. We cannot speak on their behalf on legal issues.
Graboid does not install spyware, or any sort of virus or worm. It is completely clean. As of right now, we don’t even have advertising within the application, although this may change.
There is no Mac or Linux version, as we are still doing heavy development on the PC version. We do plan to eventually release on different OS’s; however, we are not stating a timeframe.
Graboid offers about the same video selection, in the same quality, as torrents. However, our download speed is much, much faster. A file that would take 2 days to download via a torrent will download in 90 minutes on Graboid on a typical broadband connection. All Graboid files can be downloaded, even in the free version of the application. There is no need for a download manager, as our native download speeds will already max out your internet connection.
Graboid will work over any internet connection, including modem, for download. For streaming, you need a minimum of 1 Mbps. For streaming full DVDs, you need a minimum 4 Mbps. Modems will not work for streaming.
What do you think? Graboid is really legal? It will end the war between the laws against torrents? They have many plans, free (limited), silver and gold. The payment processor is Paypal and you know how paypal take security issues and anti-fraud issues about selling illegal stuffs and they are verfied so I think this can be a good point from them.
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December 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
In2Streams.com is basically the same sort of service, just better selections for TV shows.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Graboid has become a scam site , beware. Their accounts revert back to basic memberships, help forums are unavailable. They do not reply to email, HOWEVER, they still manage to charge the monthly fee…. interesting.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
when Graboid was first launched they had 3 level of membership now is just one and its free
February 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I’am looking to download various television shows from the 50′s to present day. Along with new and old movies. Music is not a prerequiste, but somthing I would consider. Hope you have what I’am looking for? Thanx.
John MacInnes,
Canada
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
its a scam!!!!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
How is a scam? if it is free.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 am
I’m with GoogleLady on that one. It cant possibly be a scam if it’s free!;)
Thank you Graboid
April 11th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I agree with Google Lady too.
I have used Graboid for three months and think it’s great, much easier than using Usenet -which Graboid is powed by- and if you join its Graboid Stars programme you get an extra gig for free!
We all want something for nothing and a lot of sites offer tv downloads, but none for free! (feel free to correct me if you know of one that does)
If you think something is a scam, explain why.
Buzz
April 20th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
the problem i have with them is this:
if you get a bad film, and it downloads, and is a bad link so you see nothing, yet it takes from your bandwith, they do not refund the ‘time’ you lose from the account, even if you have a paying account (i do). i have requested to go back to a free account, and they don’t respond… they just keep taking my $4.99 a month.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Graboid is great, all you need are multiple free accounts (you need to use a different computer for each account) and the speed and quality is amazing. On my schools internet connection we were getting around 5 MB/s and could download massive movies in a very short amount of time. When I contacted them, they responded promptly and were very willing to cancel my payment plan.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Thanks, skier354! I was able to sign up for 5 free memberships from one computer just using different e-mail addresses, but it was like they were suddenly on to me – they cut me off (by saying I’d already signed up, no matter what name or address I used!) I guess I’ll try from another computer. The free membership is pretty generous, and seems to renew periodically – is it 4000MB every month? In any case, I’ve had good experiences with their stuff.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I have been using Graboid for a few months. It is great that it is offered for free. I recently upgraded to the 4.99 per month level. I think we have to help each other by voting for the movies that are good quality.It would be great if we could preview the quality of the movies before downloading, but for the price we pay it is worth it.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:59 am
i have been using this since jan of this yr. yes some things suck like when the program doesnt down load right it uses ur bandwith, however some times they fix it so u still get to see the show u wanted but they use the bandwith again..since im on the free plan thats ok with me..however im going to try the 499 plan, if i was to down load something and that didnt work right i will get my bandwith back, simply cause the customer is always right and as a company they want to survive. also in many states there are laws to protect us from being ripped off..or you just call ur state police comp crime task force and report that they are stealing ur money… however i dont think graboid would let that happen… i also have had a few issues in which i e-mailed them and my issues where fixed and e-mails answered in a timley manner thank you holly.. so if ur on the free plan dont complain about it, however if u r a paying customer do not let it go, get ur bandwith back and then some for the trouble of haven to deal with it, any co. who wants to stay in this world has to listen to us the consumers… GRABOID IS WORTH GETTING AT ANY RATE…
May 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
P.S IM NOT THE SAME JASON AT THE TOP OF THIS SCREEN OR BLOG SO PLZ DONT CONFUSE US THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION IN THIS WHO REALLY CARES MATTER
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 am
Ok, so I took the plunge and got the $14.99 a month plan (thats pretty cheap in £ =P).
So far so good. I do have to commend them on the HD content and SUPER FAST download speed. I am now maxing out my 7mb connection and takes minutes to download the majority of content!
Keep up good work!!!
P.S. Its not a scam, its legit
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
hi i am a graboid user. i have had some problems with a few downloads, but most are high quality. i upgraded to silver account. i just wish they would make the gold and platinum accounts a little cheaper. all in all i think this is a good site
June 4th, 2008 at 3:25 am
i wanted for someone to tell me more about the ban with. what is meant by take some, returning and what not. how long do they take it? do they return it? whats going on with that please.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Graboid is very good.. you can make multiple account on the same computer.. I’ve tried and wondefully got 30+ account… Okay to do so make a new windows user and open graboid at that user… tadaaa you have it, you can repeat those steps as long as you wish…
July 5th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Interesting …
I came to this page to see if Graboid was a scam. The basic understanding from most of you is that it is NOT a scam because you get what you want for free or for a fee and Graboid actually does what it says – it gives you access to the video you want.
But my question is, “Is it a scam?” As in, is Graboid ripping off the owners and producers of the video in the way you, yourselves, don’t want to be ripped off. If it’s a scam if you don’t get what you pay for with Graboid, how is it not a scam if you don’t pay the true owners of the product for what you get?
I don’t know that Graboid is legal or not. I very much hope it is. But you all have some interesting takes on what is and is not moral. It’s a scam if I get ripped off but not if I rip off someone else.
Sad.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Blue COllar Muse,
I think Graboid is not required to pay roucers etc for there tv shows etc as tey have all been screened publicy on TV before your able to aces them through Graboid. Sure the oddd movie recorded from the Cinema gets onto graboid some times but in a whole they are all from television broadcasts and some even have the station logo in the bottom corner. So short answer would be it is above board and perfectly legal. Otherwise they wouldn’;t not still be operating now. I have the top 29,99 a month subscription giving me access to download 500 gig per month and with the huge range of HD movies and content avaliable i can tell you some months i go close to that aswell.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am
TRESE: with your bandwidth i am not sure how lng it takes to return faulty content bandwidth to your account. But even with the free accont every month the bandwidth is reset to zero to start again.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:39 am
The content of Graboid cannot be legal since you can watch movies that are still being shown in theaters. All movies have a copyright. You can tell that the quality of these movies is very poor. The tipoff is that the sound quality is very poor too. It is obvious that the film was copied by using a camera in a theater while the movie was being shown. It doesn’t matter how legal the software Graboid uses is; the content is illegal.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Movies, TV shows, books, etc. are all copyrighted. It’s illegal to download them from anywhere unless the copyright holder is offering the content. Sean–just because it was broadcast does not mean it’s now free for the taking.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I have checked out Graboid. I have done searches, and thus far I have found nothing that states it is definitely illegal. If or when I do, I will stop using it. As far as resources? If you look closely, it does tell what its resources are and how it was downloaded. For those which say “cam”……of course, naturally, you will question it. I found them by “googling” on the net, because of some of the tv shows I like to watch…..and I have a children. We do not always have the time to go out and rent a movie, etc. Like I said, I will continue checking out this site, and when I find out for sure it may be illegal….my membership will be cancelled. Also, too, as for timely response to emails or complaints? I have had no problem with them not responding to me. And if you have asked for cancellation of your membership, and they continue to withdraw money, then contact the bank you use. In the state I live in, the banks have papers you can go sign requesting no more automatic payments to be made, and the bank will stop on that and contact the company themselves to let them know. The banks will even—at times—-refund the money taken out after your cancellation.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
In my opinion, there is no way Graboid can be legal. The actual application may be legal, but downloading full quality movies for free (or even next to free) is definitely illegal. I believe it is similar to peer to peer clients, the application is legal but most of the content is not. When you pay for a membership do you think any of that money goes to publishers, producers or actors? My guess is it simply goes to Graboid so they can pay their programmers to publish new versions of the software. Having said this, I love Graboid and think it is great. But as for it being legal, anyone who can convince themselves that downloading movies for free is legal are mistaken.
July 27th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Blue Collar Muse
i do not know why its such a big deal….i mean who cares if there not getting paid and we still get their movies…like come on…the moviees that are actually worth downloading…the cators make what 10 million?….i say fuck morals and fuck buying dvds … GO GRABOID
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
i am new to graboid, i hope it is good as i’ve read, not the bad posts i have read, from what i understand is, graboid is taking programs that are free range broadcast & converting it to a pc platform, which is perfectly legal, just like its legal to record songs from radio signals that are broadcast, i havent used it yet, so take this w/ a grain of salt, sure bootlegged movies that are still showing in theaters, and have been obviously recorded crudly at a theater, is copyright infringement, but i would prolly still watch it!
August 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Technically, Graboid is breaking the law as much as Google or any other “search engine”. That is, they are providing a legal search database and a legal download accelerator. It is the person’s who are supplying and downloading the videos who are breaking the law.
Book-em Dano!
August 12th, 2008 at 1:54 am
I’m a new subscriber, and so far no too bad, one issue loss of bandwith due to bad downloads. I think there are bugs that have to be fixed. Does anyone know how long GRABOID has been online? Cheers everyone.
August 12th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
graboid is a ripoff.they have stopped the free usage !!! if you pay money your bandwidth is erased at the start of the month and you have to purchase more for 30.00.BEWARE do not give them your credit card number they will keep charging on it even when you cancel your subscription.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Sure Graboid is illegal – hells bells they even put up camera copies of the “latest” movies for gawds sake – how the hell can you think its legal? As of aug 3rd free subscribers get 1 months free use (limited downloads and limited areas) after that you suppose to pay.
Dont sign up – I’ve heard nothing but bad reports about them, – real pity because the service was great – but sadly no more.
They’re doing a Napster – only unlike Napster they’re illegal
August 14th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Go Graboid! I am currently using the free account and I got to say that I love this Service. I will most certainly upgrade to the basic service and support this service. Cant go wrong here fast downloads, Huge selection of titles and Integrated Player. Wish I had come accrossed earlier. Awsome.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I am guessing Graboid gets these shows off the newsgroups. Anyone can do the same if they learn how to use newsgroups. learn about the nzb files and what programs use them. Some internet providers give their uses free newsgroups access but if not, you can pay for unlimited access for as cheap as $10 a month.
As for a Graboid, Its nice and easy to use and they keep a long archive of shows, unlike most newsgroups (about 1 to 2 weeks). What I don’t understand is why official sites are advertising them???
I prefer to stay with just getting the tv shows since I know that they are not illegal. I say this because I have not heard of anyone being arrested for downloading tv shows yet.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
For anyone who’s skeptical about graboid because you think they rip you off and give you spyware, let me tell you this. I have used graboid on the 29.99 a month plan for about 4 months now and i have had no problems with the service at all. I get 500 Gigs a month of pure 1080p hd quality movies and shows with no spyware and no broken downloads. I love this service and I will stay with it as long as it’s offered. I definately reccomend it!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
As of today, 9/2/08 Graboid has just diappeared. I cant even pull up their website. Not even through other websites, like yours. There address no longer exist. So if they are, or were legit, where are they? I upgraded to their gold plan for 29.99 on 8/5/08 and every since then I have been having problems with it. I have had 200,000 mbs erased, unfinished downloads, I’ve been unable to open Graboid at all, at times, and today…can’t even find them at all. I went to paypal and cancelled. Now I am on the phone with them making sure that they will not be getting one cent from me again.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Okay, so the website, Graboid.com is legal. Right, it acts LIKE a torrent and searches the web for videos that have been uploaded. Irregarless, it’s still illegal to download the videos/shows. HOWEVER, graboid isn’t liable for what YOU download, you’re not paying them to download, er, in a sense you are, but overall, you’re paying them to search the internet for videos. I mean, if I were them, that’s how I’d justify it. It’s totally legit from their end, but you’re still breaking the law.
September 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Hell Great!!! Love Graboid…… i don’t care whether it’s legal or illegal, i enjoy using graboid for free account… he he…theres a trick i found it lately…. he he… Go Graboid…
September 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I tried Graboid whwn a friend told me about it, and the first film I downloaded was very good for .avi
But the next file had subtitles in Danish and the quality was much poorer.
I also had a lot of troubles with bad downloads.
And apart from the first film (The Bank Job) the quality of others have not been so goog, so I don’t bother any more – to be quite frank I can make better Div-X films myself.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
MaTT82….wat was the trick you came up with?
October 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
just downloaded it.
Well I’ll be using the free user option for as long as i can. I won’t pay for it, as i think rapidshare is much better value.
Speeds are pretty good.
hmm. i saw somewhere before “source” indicating whether a movie was a rip, cam, whatever. I can’t find it now.
I guess I also wish I could choose what disc, i want stuff downloaded too.
M
October 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I have a hard time believing that this is legal, i mean they have some brand spanking new movies on their program and i’m wondering how they got it without paying loads of money or even how they got it at all.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:51 am
Kris… should we talk bout it openly?.. he he… well.. u can get username as many as you want… he he..
November 11th, 2008 at 12:45 am
I like that this program has everything I’m looking for, but is there a way to burn my tv shows so I can watch them on my tv instead of my pc. My laptop isn’t cutting it. Also does graboid refresh you free membership with all new bandwith every month? if not how can you do those multiple accounts?
November 13th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I am shocked that nowhere is there any actual legal analysis of any of this. In my personal opinion, what Graboid is doing is illegal under theories of vicarious and contributory liability; the Betamax, Grokster, and Napster cases paint a pretty clear picture of how the courts go about this analysis, and the fact that they aren’t aren’t “affiliated” with the hosts of the files is not a distinction that I personally believe would matter. This would all be moot if Graboid has licenses for everything, but considering Graboid directs customers to movies that are still out in theaters, I highly doubt that is the case.
Of course, I hope I’m wrong. It really is an efficient system, but so far I haven’t seen anything out there that convinces me with any real legal analysis that Graboid is legal.
November 16th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Take the money and run.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
its not letting me login even know a give the ryt username and password
November 26th, 2008 at 3:19 am
You can’t know for sure if Graboid Video is ilegall. I guess it’s legal since it has thousands of users. What if they have an agreement with the biggest movies companies. Something like an experiment. Think about it, everyone knows that most of the people downloads music from all kinds of networks without paying them. If the authorities would hunt them down they would discover that they are millions of people. What if they want to recover most of their money using this method. I mean, for me it’s obvious, if I won’t buy the X movie from the store from a DVD, the movie company will loose 2 times. One for their movie and second for the costs of writing the movie on the DVD. On the Internet with a service like Graboid Video they are not forced to produce DVD’s so the they only need to sell the movie, and how are they doing it ? With a service like Graboid Video, they are selling thousands of movies to millions of people at a lower price. But, they are selling the movies cheap and to alot of people in the same time. One of the basics of the capitalism. That is a logical explanation to me. Not to mention the world crise, people won’t spend 15 $ for a DVD movie but they are willing to spend 15 $ for an Graboid account that will deliver them hundreds of movies.
November 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Anne: that was the dumbest/poorest justification i’ve ever heard…. people have to know its illegal… come to terms with it…. the individual may or may not be liable but come on…. “an experiment” ? hahahaha
December 1st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Illegal or not. its still a good bang for the buck, and I am going to use it as long as I can. Instead of complaining about it USE IT AND ENJOY IT. For the price of a DVD you get 50 Gigs of Bandwith…deal or no deal?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:11 am
guys,im wondering if graboid is really worth and reliable paying for.I’ve not seen their HD/Blu-ray qualities and if its really true and stuff since im on a free-membership.If they really do delay time,end-up not responding to ur questions the i’ll guess i just move and stick to torrent sites then which is safer?
December 9th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I have had some problems with grabiod. every time I try to log on it says sorry graboid is unavailable. Does anyone have answers. thanks
December 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
The question is how secure is it.
If i was to download a movie without paying for it (which is illegal) how do i know im not being watched or my ip is being tracked.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Just wondering if I sign up for a paid account, can I use/access that account from ANY computer anywhere? We will be traveling and I want to be able to access graboid on my laptop and my husband’s laptop, maybe even my parent’s computer while we visit. Does anyone know if you can do this?
December 13th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Seems like people like Graboid. But, they don’t care to think why the Graboid charge for the services it do not offer. As from its interview clear that they won’t do any hosting. The answere is the Graboid is just like remote application. Once the user sign in its get connected to remote server. The connection established between the user host and server and the server do all the downloading, from where no one knows. either torrent, file sharing web sites no idea. On the website it is stated “We know there’s lots of video content on the net, and most of it is inaccessible (meaning hard-to-get-for-lazy-people). So we figured out a way to get it and watch it easily.” All you can find from Graboid is just constant downloading speed. nothing much. Open your eyes search on internet you will see much more than GRABOID
December 14th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Haha still don’t see how it is legal?
December 15th, 2008 at 12:33 am
It’s not legal. You just have to decide if you are going to do it. It’s like speeding on the free way. We know it’s against the law, we just don’t care. We are tired of paying $8 every time we go to the movie and we want to see one for free every once and a while.
So until they get caught. Go Graboid, Bear Share and everyone else like them.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:07 am
the application graboid is 100% leagal scince they do not host any content they only link you to the content but the downloads are illagal scince they are a breach of copywright but with speeds like that who cares and the content is amazing and the best thing is ive downloaded about 1TB`s worth of tv shows and movies and not a single virus
December 16th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Hello Laura, yes you can download from more than one computer, In my house I have Graboid on 4 computers. As far as being on the road, well it should work, all you need is your user name and of course password…Good luck.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
The Dark Knight was recorded at a foreign movie theater. Do not get suckered by their free 4 MB offer and then give Graboid your money.
December 24th, 2008 at 6:07 am
This thing is great!! I have downloaded so many great movies in excellent quality. if your bandwidth runs out then go on:
http://users.graboid.com/subs/signupApp.php?price_group=-21
This allows you to sign up again on the same computer with the same email address. You just need a new username. and then the movies that were downloaded on your old account is automatically put onto your new account at the cost of none of your new bandwidth so you can download as much as you want.
December 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
The argument that Graboid is legal since they don’t host the content they only link to it is probably a little weak. I mean I’m no lawyer! but if you are participating in enabling the illegal activity surely you’re at fault – and that is exactly what Graboid is doing. BTW I love Graboid lol great service!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I was almost fooled into believing that this was a legal site. However it is clear from the content that it is not. For example: Iron Man was recently out at the cinema, is selling in the shops and yet it is on a peer to peer network. It is clearly a ripped copy of a commercial DVD, and the first screen on any DVD is that the film you have purchased is not for rebroadcast.
To my mind Graboid are being deliberately obtuse. The statement that their software is legal may be correct, however the downloading of commercial media which is in the cinema and on DVD is not. In essence you are paying a monthly premium to engage in illegal practices.
They are in essence facilitating the broadcasting of pirate material whilst denying that their software is provided for such a purpose. One wonders on the validity of their claims – If I sell a gun and bullets to an individual with a note stating ‘this gun is legal provided it is not used to used anyone – does that absolve me of responsibility?
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 am
You have to walk a fine line when using these services. TV shows and movies that have been aired over and recorded from public broadcasts are fine (as far as current legal interpretation goes), as it was free to anyone to “save” via electronic means. TV shows from a purchased, ripped DVD or recorded off pay-for cable/satellite channels cannot be downloaded. The issue of public broadcasts came up in the 80s with people recording TV shows/movies with VCRs and making copies for their friends. At that point, the courts said it was OK to do from public broadcasts.
I don’t think “cams” have been dealt with yet, but they’re more than likely illegal.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:55 am
I use Graboid and find it is an excellent program. It is not a scam. For those of you who have issues with the recurring payments and lack of communication regarding it – use your brain. It’s paypal. You created the recurring payment with PAYPAL. Graboid does not have your payment information. So cancel it, and Graboid won’t get your money, and then your account is closed.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
http://www.graboid.com/subs/signupApp.php?price_group=-21
the sign up page, save it.
you need a new email every time you signup.
graboid also keeps track of your ip address, so use a proxy.
….free graboid accounts.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
y can i only download 4000mb of movies i thought it was free?
January 7th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
It is only free for the trial period googlelady after that silver is 4.99 gold is 14.99 and diamond is 29.99
January 8th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I love the people who say it’s a scam… Have you tried it? I have for months. Most programs will tell you if it’s a bad program. In the 60 or shows I’ve downloaded, I have had 1 bad one. I use it to watch television with no commercials, or to watch en entire series without having to wait until next week to see the next. Everything can be a problem if you let it. Yes if you want to watch a movie from the theaters chances are you are watching what some moron sat in the theater and filmed himself, then downloaded to the internet. This is called Pirating…It makes you a moron to think that is legal. It’s those people who ruin greats sites such as Graboid. Graboid offers a trial for free, if it’s not for you…DON’T BUY IT!!! It’s your choice. how is that a scam? If you want guaranteed no problem programs, buy them from the store. As for Victors question…It’s a free trail. Trial period, meaning you get to try it out to see if it’s for you, so you don’t have to pay for something you don’t want, like alot of other sites out there. For anyone questioning this site, try the trail, there’s no stings attached. I found I was very happy with what the free trial showed me, I signed up for a plan immediately. My favorite thing to do is to download shows from channels I don’t have, for example, the 3rd season of Friday night lights, the 3rd season was only available to those who have direct TV, or Californication, which was a ( Showtime or HBO) program, I’m not sure of the legality of that. This is just my opinion, I am very pleased with graboid. Try it out before you judge, if you don’t like it, don’t buy a plan.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Who cares …its 4.99 a month people!! You get your moneys worth with the download of a single movie. That’s as much as you pay at your nearest blockbuster..plus the download stays in your library for future viewing. You can also determine the quality before you download for the most part. Did I mention it was 5 bucks? C’mon people.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am
To answer lauras questions, as long as you download it and sign in with your user name and password you can access your plan and content from any computer
January 14th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
But the 4000mb. I mean come on, I’m a movie type person. I mean, is that all they’re going to give? I went through that in 2 days. How do I get more bandwidth??????
January 14th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
How can it be legal to download movies that can only be seen in the theater, i.e. “Bedtime Stories which we just finished watching? It seems that no one can answer this question except ourselves.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
i have just join graboid and i am well inpressed
i was desperate to watch losty season 5 spotted it on a google search
thought i would give it a try and its spot on i am going to use up the bandwith i have and sign up as its top notch will def pass it on to people
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Graboid is not free anymore, but its cheap. It works great if you pay attention to what you are doing. It is not a scam, whether watching the movies is legal or not is still a question. It is great for catching up on tv series that you missed, and obscure movies.
February 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Isn’t it pretty much the same thing as megavideo? expect that you seem to have to download the stuff first.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Has anyone gotten any viruses?
February 7th, 2009 at 4:03 am
I only had Graboid for 2hrs. My dad said it used Peir to Peir. Meaning that you can see their screen, and they can see yours. I want tto trust it but does anyone know if their a localised group, or a huge comany. You never can tell.
February 15th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
HI, I been using Graboid since 3 weeks ago its great so far. But I am confused how they can have movies for me to watch that are still at the Theaters which charge $10.00 to see. On one movie I saw a shadow of someone walking across the screen, like someone paid to see the movie at the theator and brought a hidden camrea and filmed it right off the screen boot-leg style. I don’t really know but it sounds fishy legal wise, but after spending 50 dollars one weekend to see only three movies with only 1 snack purchase. Let these bastards rip each other off. Intead of me for a change. Thank you Grabiod!
February 28th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hello Ash, I have been using Graboid for over a year, so far…no viruses, besides they are making a ton of money every month, no need for spyware or viruses.
March 12th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
No
March 14th, 2009 at 1:42 am
if your afraid of scams and stuff especially when it comes to recurring membership fees get an american express gift card its like having a credit card but you put however much money on it you want when you want they cant exactly charge a gift card account if there is no money…cuz its not an acount muahahaha TAKE THAT SCAMERS!
March 14th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Welcome to the internet, where everything you want to do, should be taken with a grain of salt.
Graboid is a service, just like Youtube is a service. If someone abuses that privilege and loads illegal content, they’re the ones who’ll get blamed, not you because you unknowingly downloaded it.
I tried the free service and liked the variety of movies offered, so I signed up for the paid account.
I think it is a great idea to pay for your bandwidth, instead of the movie.
Graboid’s flaw however, is they should actually talk to the producers of those movies and tv shows and start a clientele, that way part of the money goes towards those who deserve it. Even though it will probably be more expensive, at least their service will be more legitimate.
But the “risk” of downloading a movie with the wrong subtitles is about as possible as renting a scratched DVD, or realizing the DVD you bought is empty. If you don’t like what you’re paying for, then do the right thing and rent it from Blockbuster.
They have lawyers on their side, do you think lawyers would blindly work with an illegal client?
Source: http://www.graboid.com/home/legal/privacy-policy/
If you have doubts, then go somewhere else, or take some time to read their legal content and figure out if this is for you.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I think this site is wonderful, with the economy like it is, who has the money to pay $20 or $30 dollars for DVD’s or take the kids to the movies or rent movies or whatever, I know I dont have the extra money. Look at the money your out.
For 4 People to go the movies = $40 after tickets, drinks, snacks, etc.
Gas= $15 depending how far you are
Food after the show for 4 = $35/$40
So around $100 dollars per movie with a average family of 4
To download movies with this code A8D2429C52 you can get the Gold for $10.99 a month by the way. We will use that price for example.
Subscription- $10.99
Blank DVD’s $10
Popcorn- $3.00
So $24 dollars you have a good night at home with the kids for a fourth of the price.
Sounds like to me this program is wonderful. I have enjoyed it, and I will use it even if its not illegal. Like some not all of us have even the $29.99 to get the largest subscription a month. We can only do what we can do but you have to be able to get movies for the kids somehow, it takes alot to keep up with everything the want. They have a chance to watch more movies when you get them like this.
For the people that is worried that this program is illegal won’t you try donating the money that you would waste a month on movies “just because you found out this program is illegal” to someone that can use it, some charity or something, not everyone has money to do whatever with. Theres alot of things that I have to do without just to take care of mine.
A8D2429C52 $4.00 of Gold Membership. This code is legit, I used it. But I can’t promise how long it will last. So take advantage of it while you can.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
you dont even need to pay for this service i have developed a way to make unlimited free accounts and it takes a matter of seconds i will tell you all how to do it, it is very easy if you would rather pay tell me otherwise email me and ask me how to do it i have made at least 100 accounts when you are so-post to be able to create one account per user fuck that just make as many as you want FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:06 am
u guys who paid are dumb, once graboid becomes illegal the authorities will seize their financial records with YOUR name and credit card information. i don’t know if they’ll prosecute you but if they do, they’ll target those who have paid because they would be the easiest to catch first, then the ones with free accounts… but i don’t think they’ll go for ALL user’s just a few to make examples out of them… fuck the movie industry, they’re starting to piss me off with all these new crappy hollywood movies… and fuck the MPAA they’re monopolizing what movies we get to watch, blah
March 18th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Put on your thinking cap, all of you! Every positive comment made above has been posted by someone directly connected to this scam, trying to convince everyone else on this blog that so many people are satisfied with Graboid. Read the posts again, this time carefully and critically. All the comments supporting Graboid are self-serving. A true satisfied customer would not go to all the trouble of posting so much detailed defense of a company that gives them something for nothing. Most of the comments defending Graboid are very similar in content and presentation. Seriously, how difficult would it be for someone with Graboid to make up several different screen names and post all the comments, posing as several “satisfied customers?” If Graboid were a legit site, then all these satisfied customers would be too busy watching their FREE movies to post lengthy comments on this blog, wouldn’t they?
Me? I’ve been ripped off from one site too many like Graboid. That’s why I have the time and common sense to warn others to stay away. I’d rather pay a small monthly fee for my satellite, or pay $1.99 from Red Box and watch a movie with MY family of 4 for less than $10. Plus…I have a clear conscience from staying away from Graboid and others like it.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:23 am
“Just JB” I am the admin of this BLOG and I can assure you that every commenter is different people.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Hi I have read the fine print and I have emailed their customer service reps with some questions asking if they were indeed legal they wrote me back claiming yes.
I have to say I’m keeping this as a copy so if I am bothered by my account I will have a record to my asking them.
Frankly, I find it hard to believe they are legal. Movies that are still in the theaters are available on Graboid. I’m a paying member but I’m not into things that are cheap rips so I just stick with things out on DVD’s now.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:49 am
I’m with pandejos. Something is very fishy here. Yes the service is great. Yes they have a lot of selections, yes the quality is awesome, yes the download speeds are fast.
But is it too good to be true? I think it is. What really bothers me is that they want your credit card number. Even when you insist you want to pay with PayPal, it still prompts you for a CC or bank account number to complete the transaction.
Graboid wants a way to tie your ILLEGAL downloads with YOU when it comes time to prosecute. YOU ARE NO LONGER ANONYMOUS.
So do you still think $4.99 a month is cheap? Wait until the movie company lawyers start suing you for piracy.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Graboid is illegal, i know the creators
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Anon,
If movie company brown shirts start knocking on my door for illegal downloads, I’ll drag Time Warner with me since I have hundreds of movies copied to disk from their DVR that they provided me with
April 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Graboid offers fre serivce so you can see how the program works but they do not show what happens when the entire program does not work. I emailed them askng for a refund and recived the same response about not offering a refund and terms of serives bullshit. this company is a blight and should be closed down. DO NOT USE THIS COPMANIES PRODUCT YOU WILL BE RIPPED OFF!
April 10th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Not a SCAM!!
LMAO, Okay to clear things up for some of you people.
I have been a Graboid Member for almost a Year now. I started with a free account. I was shocked that I could so easily find TV shows and watch them instantly, even in HD. Shows like Reaper, 24, According to Jim. But the Movie Section. EVEN BETTER!! BEing able to download BLue Ray movies. Just awesome. And the quality is amazing on my big screen.
Of course Free accounts dont give you the bandwith you need for HD Movies. Some are 10gigs. So I upgraded to the Unlimited account. Just $30 a month. I dont even need cable TV anymore. If I want to watch TV shows, I watch them off Graboid. THey have Weeds from Showtime, Sopranos from HBO. No need for cable. You have on demand TV And Movies. Not to mention Movies that arent even on DVD yet.
The New X-Men, Wolverin origins. It was on Graboid before it was even in theaters. Simply search for the movie you want. When the results come back they tell you the source of the movie. CAM (dont bother), Screener (Perfect copy of the movie, same version used for screening). In the new X-Men movie I saw it said WorkPrint.
I wasnt sure what this meant so I just clicked play. It looked like a Screener. It was a perfect copy. But then I saw a computer animation where Wolverin tumbles over a 18 wheeler. And in another part of the movie I saw the Wire harness on the actor. I guess workprint meant just that. It was the version on the movie not yet finished. But in any case.
Graboid is far from a SCAM. I saw someone say they ask for your bank account number.. Umm, No they dont. I signed up through PAY PAL. They have no personal info. I didnt even have to give them a credit card number.
I saw another comment say they have no help forum. Yes they do. ON there website I believe. I never had to check it out, but i remember seeing one.
They used to have a feature where people could chat using the application itsself. Leaving comments under each movie, but they tossed that.
And another person said they dont return Emails when you try to cancel your account and keep charging you.
Im not sure about that. I never had to email them. But I can tell you this. You should have no reason what so ever to have to Email them to cancel your account.
You DO NOT Cancel your account through graboid.
You simply sign into your PayPal account and simply cancel your subscription to them. No need to email them or contact them..
Of course if you Cancel your subscription on PayPal you will see your Bandwidth limit drop down from Unlimited to something like 2000MB. Im not sure what the free account gives you a month.
So obviously once you click cancel on your Pay Pal account, you will stop seeing charges on your credit card. Graboid isnt charging you, Paypal is.
So a SCAM? Nope. It’s been a Year since i found Graboid, I have been though a few versoins of there application. I dont have a single complaint.
Watch your TV shows when you want, or DOwnload them and Keep them forever.
Download TV in SD or HD.
Stream Movies instantly. Or also Download them for keeping. And again, you can pick SD or HD for movies.
Sign up is quick, and anytime you like to cancel its just one button press away.
The only real cost……. HARDDRIVES!!!
Alot of movies I simply Download for Keeping. 700GB Drives seem big. But when you are Downloading Blue Ray quality movies, they Fill up fast. I’ve had to buy 2 since i’ve joined.
So to sum up. I LOVE Graboid. I literally do not watch normal TV anymore. Why sit through commercials.
It has replaced Renting DVDs, Going to the Movies, and wasting time waiting for a TV show to air.
I decided to submit a long comment because i see poeple say you will be ripped off.
And I wanted to make it clear from a long time user who now has over a Terabite in Movies sitting on 2 hard drives next to my PC that you wont be ripped off.
and hopfully i’ve covered any possible question new users might be wondering.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:38 am
I am not a supporter or a promoter, I think they are just a way for the corps to make a little money back and this is why. I am a customer. I was using bit torrents, allot. I used every safety feature possible. After… a long time… I got a very nice non threatening letter saying someone might be using a wireless account to download copyrighted material. Please stop. It was enough to make me stop. I was being hit by every spybot to see if I was pirating, about 1 every second get legal. Or at least not hassled. I have my PC hooked to my TV. I am disabled. Not an excuse, no sad violins, but I am at home often and love movies. I cant afford to see them at the theater. I watch most everything from the internet. Graboid uses the same content Pritate Bay does for new movies. The exact same movies, illegal copies but they choose the best in general, even cam copies of major films in theaters. Nearly every one that is in theaters that I had the remotest intrest I have seen. Known, etc. etc. I watch that a month ago.
They now charge for band width. I get a way fast connection and have downloaded and streamed over 90 gigs in a month. If you use their software and not their down loader bar. You can disable their cookie, they even tell you how in their help, and you account management is all their, I have called to see how they would handle a downgrade. They answered. I did want it, never did. I cant believe its real and legal and wanted to see if they would answer. They were polite. They have not over charged me and refunded when I upgraded. I watch my account closely. I am not saying the have not done bad things, or handled other accounts well. The are owned by some major corp. in some way I am sure. They host their own very fast servers and sell pirated movies. Strange. Not one article in the news on their legality, Pirate Bay is all over the news. Graboid does have a vast amount of legal great copies and HD and even great pirated copes of movies. The also have camcorders copies, the exact same being bit torrent. Point is they do sell pirated copies, the question is who are they paying.
All I care is the letters stopped and so the spy ware hits from media corps like Media Sentry sent to catch you stopped. So for now, I am a happy camper.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Does anyone know a site where you don’t have to pay do download video’s?
April 20th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Let’s get a few things straight. First, no this is not legal, period. Not for new films still in theaters, not for older films out on DVD, and not even for TV shows or films that already aired on broadcast television. There are copyrights involved, and the legal fact is that you cannot send or receive copyrighted material — for free or for a fee — from someone else who does not have legal rights to that material.
Legal decisions that protect your right to record a movie/show off of your own television are entirely different — the network is the one “sending” you the show/film, and they do in fact have rights to broadcast it. The people from whom you are getting these shows/movies on Graboid do NOT have legal rights to “broadcast”/provide you with this stuff.
Too many of you are severely misinterpreting the law about this, and are making utterly false legal claims about it being legal. If you aren’t the owner of the copyright, or are not a second party who has paid the holder of the copyright for the right to broadcast the material, then you cannot legally send or receive these materials. Meaning you are breaking the law when you download it, and the person at the other end hosting the material is breaking the law by making it available for you to download it.
And anyone who thinks that by claiming you “thought” it was legal (and who are posting such claims here because you mistakenly think it will be “proof” that you can deny knowing it was illegal) need to understand that it does not matter one single bit whether you thought it was or wasn’t legal. The modern laws governing copyright, electronic recording and downloading, and other related matters are pretty vividly clear about the whole situation — whether you try to pretend you don’t understand it or not, you are still absolutely breaking the law and would/will absolutely be held responsible by law enforcement for downloading anything with this service, period.
Read the The “Digital Millennium Copyright Act”, for God’s sake people. That’s the federal law that clearly spells out exactly why everything you’re doing with Graboid is illegal, no matter whether you admit it or try to pretend and argue etc that it’s not. And that means, by the way, that the crime you are committing is a federal offense, a felony for which there are very large punishments. Those of you claiming you have kids and can’t afford to go to movie theaters etc, well if you have kids then maybe you should be a bit more concerned about the fact that you are violating federal law and your kids might suffer a bit when their parents get arrested.
Oh, and yes, you’ll get arrested for this. See, Graboid’s methodology — unfortunately for all of you — means that your IPs are now captured on all of those many servers they are using to find these illegal materials, to speed up the download process for you, etc. Not to mention those of you giving your names and credit card numbers to them.
Don’t be confused about this, at the point law enforcement is ready to move against Graboid and the rest of you, they’ll have all the evidence they need and will do it very easily and quickly. In this case, it’ll be the Justice Department who comes for you, since it’s a federal crime and under jurisdiction of divisions handling cyber-crimes and copyright, not to mention (hold on to your hats) RICO laws against conspiracies and racketeering. Yep, RICO laws, folks — that’s what happens when you contract with one party (Graboid, via paying them or simply downloading their software) to get material from a second party (the people hosting the movie and TV show copies) to obtain these materials. Even if the person hosting the material originally obtained it legally — buying the DVD, recording it off broadcast TV, whatever — the moment they put it on a server or some file sharing system, they are making it illegally available. Then you come along and download it, illegally. That’s enough right there — two people — for a conspiracy, and for RICO. Add in the fact that Graboid is facilitating it, not to mention that they in fact advertise their service as a way to GET films and TV show, and you’ve got an even bigger problem.
Someone earlier seemed to think that the fact Graboid supposedly has lawyers means they are legal. Ha! Okay, first of all, who exactly told you that people committing crimes can’t get lawyers? That’s just silly. Second of all, the fact is that plenty of companies engaged in questionable or illegal practices — and just to be clear, this isn’t just “questionable”, there’s no question about it, it is illegal — hire attorneys to provide legal advice and opinions for the company to try to justify their actions or defend against allegations of criminality etc. So the lawyers don’t mean anything here.
Now, let’s just pretend for a minute, for the sake of argument, that somehow Graboid found a magical loophole in the laws against facilitation of felonies. Okay, so pretend that since Graboid merely hooks up a person illegally providing copyrighted materials with another person who wants to get those illegally provided films and shows, they are legally safe. Okay, that still doesn’t mean anything for YOU, because you are using their service to find films and shows that are illegally provided on servers and other services, and then you are downloading those films and shows — when you download it, you are committing a federal offense, period!
Do you think that if Enterprise legally rents you a car, that you can drive to someone’s house and pick up a pound of cocaine and drive it back to your house without committing a crime? If you get a legal e-mail account with Yahoo, can you use it to send death-threats to government officials? Of course not! Use your brains, people. It doesn’t matter what Graboid is, whether it’s legal, or whether the person on the other end providing you the movies is legal, either — you only need to know ONE THING, which is that downloading of movies and TV shows is illegal if you didn’t buy them from someone who has the copyright or has a license to provide the film/show. Getting a movie or show any other way is a violation of the “Digital Milennium Copyright Act”, and is a very serious crime. Thousands — THOUSANDS, folks — of people are being arrested for this every year, and the number of arrests is increasing every year.
So ask yourselves something: why is Graboid still up and running? Well, a better question to ask yourselves is this: if you were the FBI, trying to keep up with all of the illegal swapping and selling and downloading of films and shows, would you take out Graboid, or would you leave it up and keep going after the people USING IT? As long as Graboid stays up, the FBI knows they’ll keep finding hundreds and even thousands of people to arrest. Which do you think they’re doing?
As for those of you saying you don’t care if it’s illegal or not, well I guarantee you that you’ll care very soon when you are arrested. And beyond that, I can’t help wondering if you are as morally flippant about other things as well, or merely when it’s something you want to do. If you can justify it by mouthing off about the film companies already making millions of dollars and being rich so they can afford it, well then are you breaking into banks and robbing them of hundreds of thousands of dollars as well? They are federally insured, right? They are rich and get massive subsidies and tax breaks and help from the government, much more than anyone in Hollywood.
Oh, but just to be clear about something — the film writers don’t get $10 million or whatever crazy figure you pulled out of your butts, they in fact get very little for the films they write compared to other people. But hey, you don’t care, they still make plenty of money, right? Well I hope the people poorer than all of YOU decide to perhaps drop by your house when you’re away, and steal everything you own. Why not, you make more money than they do! However financially troubled any of you might be, you are nowhere near the poverty level of someone in Somalia for example — so could someone from that nation, here in the U.S. with political asylum, just break into your house and help themselves to your possessions?
No, I’m sure your excuses and moral ambiguity don’t extend beyond your own laziness. The only saving grace is that in the end, you’ve left a nice little trail behind for when the Justice Department finally gets around to YOU. Don’t pretend to yourselves that you aren’t violating federal law, committing felonies, and leaving a trail — it’s all true, and you WILL eventually get called out for it.
Wanna ask me how I know?
April 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Dude this article is 2 years old. Give it a rest. The truth is your Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a crock of shit. All those movies people are pirating is made with technology. Now technology is flipping the switch like robin hood. I don’t give a crap who or what movie producers are being ripped off because for over 30 years they been stealing my hard earned cash now its time to stick it back to them. In the days before television people did not hard copy any type of entertainment whatsoever. That’s just it people entertained for recreation not for profit. No one should make any money off any movie for doing something that without technology would just be a play. It’s about time the world took care of the people starving for a meal, sleeping on a dirt floor or too poor to even travel to the nearest grocery store let alone buy food. So all you stealing ass movie producers sitting on your ass doing “so called” hard work deserving of money get a real job instead of contributing to this world’s downfall. BTW I’ll show you, how to remove the limit and get bandwidth for free, in Graboid! You will need 2 things, Graboid Setup and Effective File Search. You can get Graboid Setup at, http://www.graboid.com/home/download/. You can EFS from http://www.sowsoft.com/search.htm. I’m going to assume, you have already used the Graboid Trial Bandwidth that you get for free when you sign up for the trial. So, you have Graboid installed already. Install EFS and uninstall Graboid. Now run the program Effective File Search. It will give you a nag screen, saying it is a shareware. Look for the “Containing Text” tab and click it. Now find, RegEx checkbox and tick it. In the text box, type “Graboid”, without the quotations. After it has scanned every file possible that is related to Graboid, delete all those files. Install Graboid again and make a new account.
And if you want to stick it to the phone company too use icall.com for all your free phone calls!! Fuck the economy fuck the rich food for all and all for one
April 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Mr. Bill Cross,
All that you say is true, except the small detail that the law allows a loop hole. It is not illegal to view anything…anywhere….under anycircumstance. Claiming ownership is illegal. Yes if you use graboid and store the files….it is illegal. If you are not “storing” the files which “claims ownership” of the files, the is no law prohibited the viewing of even copyrighted material. What your eyes see is what your eyes see…its what you hands hold that gets you in trouble. So as a user watching content “through” graboid, you are breaking no laws so long as the files are not stored.
I could sit here and watch shows until I am blue in the face with the entire FBI sitting outside my door…so long as the content is not in my possession, not distrubted by me, and no longer saved to my computer….there is nothing anyone can do…even through RICO.
Evidence has to be present. Logs of connections are not enough evidence in digital media…the actual files in question need to be present or proof that those files did infact exist in your possesion.
As for the program graboid itself…I will not argue that one way or the other. I do have laywers in my family and they all see it different ways. But law is interpretation…and sometimes law is subjective.
This technology grew quicker than our ability to govern it. I have no illusions that one day everything will be free but it should move in the direction at least. The answer is not trying to prosecute billions of people (regardless…that is just never going to happen) but create a method that bypasses second party transactions but still gives the end users a seemingly limitless choice at a smaller price. Networks and corps. are already moving towards this (hulu.com, partnerships with Veoh) and eventually they will figure out a way to do it for profit and the customer.
For everyone else
I help people when graboid is not working (on the forums) and have even written my own program (g-start) to accompany graboid.
The pro’s: Graboid maxes out your connection up to the speeds of the server hops. If you can get 7megabytes per second on your connetion, graboid will give it to you.
The video quality is better than digital cable on the TV shows and DVD quailty on released media. That is not to say you will not get some bad ones. If you plan on watching something that has yet been released on mass media, the quality will probably not be that great, but that would be because portable media version has not been released.
The HD is awesome ranging from 720p to 1080i
The program itself makes a once tedious task (searching through indexing services and newsgroups by headers to find a file you want) a much much more simpler thing.
It is not P2P and will never require you to share you connection
The User Forum is pretty good at getting your problems fixed.
Cons
Not all files will stream by any means…this is a lie. Many will try but the code that is graboid is unable to process many of the videos to stream and promtps you to download them instead.
Graboid is buggy and takes a little getting used to. The software is a mixture of many different apps that don’t always play nice. However, with help from the forums and a little tampering, it will work and you will never use another service.
No available comments section on individual files…this makes determinging the best file for you a bit harder. Grabois is working on it and they tried a version with comments, but soon found it not to be as efficient as first thought
Graboid is a resource HOG. It takes a lot to run graboid but its worth it.
Finally, graboid as a company is very good to its paying customers, but be prepared to wait a while to get matters resolved. THEY WILL BE RESOLVED, but it might take some time. This is probably their biggest downfall right now, but they are still growing. There is no phone or live chat…just an email address. However for almost any issue other than account issues, go to the forums and you can usually get help within the hour.
Graboid is amazing and will forever alter your video watching experience. I have been using graboid since its beta release version .94 (getting close to two years).
STAY AWAY from sites like themoviedownload.com and netmoviedownload.com, I saw a comparison somewhere saying they were better than graboid. NO NO NO…they utilize p2p sharing tech and usually are very limited to older content.
I saw a mention of in2streams.com I loved that site but they have some bad points and in comparion fall WAY short of graboid. You cannot be sure that video titles are the correct one at this site. Numerous times I would watch a show and wonder, “What the hell just happened?” Shouldn’t there have been a another show in there??? This would ot be so bad if they labeled the videos the correct episode number…I would rather know I am missing a show. Also, you have to start messing with registry keys to set your rwin and maxconnections and all the tcp/icp settings just to get the files to play without choppiness. The number one reason I say no to this site….it has the ABESOLUTE WORST quality of any video I have ever watched on the web. Though there are LOTS of shows….it just sux watching them in such pixelation.
TV-links.cc is up (has been) as the predescesor of tv-links.co.uk
Anyone wondering “SHOULD I TRY GRABOID?” don’t listen to anyone else….make your own choice…take a look…go from there.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
If you download a bad movie that wont play on Graboid
You can Fix It using a program called QuickPar
Graboid is very very fast! Just start loads of new email accounts to get new free logins that last a month
May 4th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
The short answer is
NO GRABOID IS NOT LEGAL
The only reason the mpaa has not targeted them for elimination is that they are headquartered in a Country that does not recognize DMCA.
On the other hand the service works pretty darn well albeit a few bugs that need to
be ironed out.
Personally i could care-less about whether graboid is legal for me it’s all about the
fast downloads, and really the movie industry needs to change and adapt in this new economy. Perhaps THEY should PURCHASE graboid muhahahaha!
May 4th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
BTW STFU pretty much nailed this one and thanks for the iphone info I have been using Skype, yet at 2.95 monthly if it works as well that’s money that can be saved. I think what our society needs to do is mirror Star Trek philosophy and work to better society and do away with the monetary system completely. What we have now is a small percentage of rich people running around charging ‘we the people’ ridiculous
amounts of money. UNFORTUNATELY the person who owns graboid probably fits in that category hopefully he/she donates money towards charity. Yet since graboid has a free service as well it’s good… that can be extended by using what STFU noted or by using the simple method i use…….I have access to many unsecured wireless networks and by registering the account/s under different email address’s and carefully using those accounts with that specific wireless connection you can easily watch what you need for free.
May 21st, 2009 at 9:57 am
I have been using graboid for about a year now and WOULD NOT recommend it. seriously, i tried downgrading my membership seeing as they charge me 31.00 for 500,000mb and i only use about 100,000mb. so i email asking for a downgrade…nothing, they just continue to bill me for 31.00. i have emailed about 3 times, no response, no change in my account, nothing. im so sick of these jerks just taking my money and never dealing with problems. i mean, its ok if you can actually USE 500,000mb of bandwith a month, but if you get the diamond membership and realize that you DONT use that much, good luck downgrading to something more practical because it just wont happen.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 am
You should look into other blogging platforms, wordpress is getting slower and slower these days, I really like the site tho so its worth the wait!!
May 28th, 2009 at 2:11 am
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June 3rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Also, I am a mod for Graboid…
The poster in this forum Evilblood was banned from the forums at Graboid and that is why he is hateful.
Notimpressed, Graboid is excellent though a bit slow at times at getting problems like that fixed but they WILL get it fixed.
Also, to all the “make more than one account people”….lol Myself, along with many other graboid users spend hours finding your posts so that Graboid can slightly change to stop your attacks.
Get a job, grow a backbone and pay for the service. It is already delivering VERY cheap media to you.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Graboid is not free but it SHOULD be!!!
I am still trying to hack the shit out of it and somehow it knows the hack now(wich was a damn good one).
I can’t wait till they go under-Does anyone know how to get past the graboid error message after using the search engine to pull up the signup page.
They are some tricky little robot bastards
June 9th, 2009 at 6:51 am
kshutch is correct. The poster evilblood was indeed banned from the forums at Graboid. What can I say, I have been a member of Graboid for seven months now and I absolutely love it. About the person who posted who said something about there not being any forum support for Graboid that is absolutely ridiculous! I visit the Graboid Community Forum practically everyday and the help you get there from other users who love Graboid is endless and by the way one of those users is kshutch who really has helped tons of people out. About having to pay for Graboid once the free trial is over well all I can say to those people is get real, do you really expect to get such a great service for free. If you are a serious movie lover you won’t mind paying for quality because Graboid is definitely a quality service.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I have been a member of graboid for some time now. I’ve had a few minor gliches but nothing to run to mama about. I love it, especially when I get good quality movies and tv shows which is a good percentage of the time. I’d say 98%, my husband just tells me to be patient when it comes to the movies we are looking for so I’m selective with my options, I don’t choose the “cam” anymore. Since my free 4GB, I’ve been upgrading every since, I’m at the diamond level. I don’t think I will stay there though(diamond level) that’s a whole lot of movies, more than even I have room for. Should I have problems downgrading I will be patient and just stop my membership at my paypal account and not wait for someone to email me back while $30 bucks continually get jacked out of my account. I got that info from Graboid, they are helpful and want their customers satisfied. The other members in the forum are very helpful and knowledgeable. I’m learning a lot in “tips and tricks”. It has been worth every penny I’ve spent. I’d suggest this to any movie/tv lover, I always do. Making grab-addicts one day at a time. Hahaha…
August 7th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
My two cents worth. I pay 4.99 per month for Graboid and for that price I think its ok. Sometimes I would like to watch a larger file but I wont pay more than 4.99 for the following reasons. (1) Many files are not available or will not play or download. (2) Many movies are not available (but many are). (3) The quality is ok but not great. (4) Often the files are not in English, but its not really clear which are which. Once I got a file which had a spoof over commentary which completely ruined the movie. I havent found anything better than Graboid. I think the service will probably improve in the future.
August 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am
This has been my experience with graboid:-
Firstly I’d like to say that whatever product or service I review -I only review as having used the service and do not write biased opinions due to affiliate marketing or suchlike.
I joined Graboid 2 months ago.Now Im pissed off.
The deal with Graboid is “when” it decides to work the quality is usually fantastic (very few downloads are of poor quality-most are superb). Read on ………….Two weeks ago I downloaded a documentary-it downloaded perfectly in 10 mins and worked great.Then I tried to download 5 movies -all failed in the last few minutes of downloading.I got stuck into the help forum-I tweaked everything on my pc-for a week I thought it was a pc issue-alas it was not.I went on holiday last week and logged into Graboid yesteday morning -same story-my first download worked fast and perfect than since last night I have had 6 failed downloads in a row.Now Graboid please tell me your argument:-My internet speed is very good 1,200 kbps during download,I always keep my hard drive spacious,I de-fragement my pc every night,-I choose Graboid files which supposedly have a high working rank-I always pick files which are usually no larger than 1,500 mb,+ I don’t run any other program at the same time as Graboid and only try to download when your server status says it’s up and running.Additionally I never download more than one film at a time.SO are you going to keep pulling the wool over my eyes again? Including your alias name forum helpers? I have my own internet company+ I am a top internet marketer.I take a lot of pride in helping others on the internet and offer true value and service.So why am I paying Graboid $15 and getting failed download after failed download? No it is not my pc,or firewall settings,or other issues.Initially I thought Graboid was spectacular(in the first two days),sadly and yes honestly I have had nothing but hit and miss with Graboid.My advice is “if” you do decide to pay for Graboid I wouldn’t pay more than $5 per month for the entry level download limit.It’s very sad because as I said when a dwonload works the quality is usually terrific and the file can be burned straight to a blank dvd-yet Graboid does not deliver its promise.I also hate people who whinge or complain to much-yet I am only complaining because I am not being supplied with what I am paying for.Something like 5000 mb has just been removed off my account and I have nothing to show for it.It’s most likely that forum moderators may speak up to this message as they mey feel obliged to.However I feel this is a very honest and neutral review on Graboid.I always give a review on neutral terms,and from an experience of a product.This is how it has been for me.
August 15th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I’ve been using Graboid for over 2 years now. When they first came out, the deal was, you could get 4,000MB of BW each month free (average movies are 700-1,000; so we’re talking about 10 free movies each month). If you had leftover, it did not carry. they oferred pay plans as well~ silver, 4.99; for 10,000 BW, gold for 14.99 for 50,000BW and platinum, etc.
Initially, they had a stars program, but it has since been ended; as has the free monthly basis. What they now offer is 1 month free trial, of 4,000 BW, after that you pay. Because some always ruin it for the rest, they’ve beguyn instituting flag systems to make sure people aren’t just using the same IP with dif. emails addys~ and honestly, it’s a pretty damn fair deal to me. If some people would have just enjoyed their free 4,000 and ponied up the lousy 4.99 for any extra they wanted each month, we’d still have a free 4,000 each month.
Graboid’s legality is a ste, issue, and the bottom line is, right now, people USING it are the ones breaking the law. It’s a legalese loophole; but Graboid is simply a listing service, and they’re not actually breaking laws.
As for their service itself: I get the 14.99 gold membership each month. At 50,000 BW, that’s 50 movies+, and sometimes i don’t even use it all~ for that, i get to watch all the HBO and Showtime shows i’d normally pay twice that a month for~ usually the same night they air, in HD quality. An episode of True Blood for example, is about 600BW; and usually uploaded in HD a few hours after it airs. Tons of movies that are still in theatres are available, and they’ve instituted an excellent system in which you the consumer, can vote on it’s quality. It’s even been dumbed down with red, yellow and green lights for those incapable of figuring out the old chacks and x’s system. We do still have a handful of people who continue to vote on their actual opinion of the movie instead if it’s quality, but as a back up, graboid also offers the format~ camcorder, telesync, dvd, retail, workprint, etc~ and a breakdown of what each means in the forums.
Torrents take days, and 75% of the time if not more, they’re password protected or useless. Many have viruese. in the almost 3 years I’ve been using graboid, neither I, nor the dozens of people I’ve turned on to them, have ever had a virus.
Sure, occassionally, i download a movie that is broken, or has no volume~ (they do in fact offer a system that shows the language of the film as well, for those who whine about downloading german languages, it’s their own fault- read the forums before downloading, set your preferences, and it won’t happen). No, you won’t usually get your BW back if it’s a broken link~ but i suppose anyone who bitches long enough will get back the lousy 700MB they lost, and it’s their right to do so.
I had one issue in all m years with them, and that was once i ran out of BW, and renewed before my normal renewal date. As a result, i got double charged~ it took some doing, but eventually graboid refunded not only the extra charge, but also the $50 in ISF the second charge caused in my bank account~ pretty decent, if you ask me, even if it was their fault. Most places wouldn’t bother.
The bottom line is, you’re getting a good product, a damn good price, and if you put in the effort, you can even get email customer service if something goes wrong. If you still want to complain, well, good luck finding something comparable elsewhere.
August 15th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
One last thing: the movies you get with spoof commentary over the actual film are clearly listed as what they are~ 99% of the time, they’re called RIFFTRAX. They’re not released by graboid; it’s an actual copy of the film, released. Has nothing to do with graboid~ sort of like getting wierd al yankivich’s copy of a song~ you wouldn’t go back to the record store and demand your cash back because you bought the CD, right? No! You’re the guy who didn’t read the label or read up on the artist/movie. EVERY movie has a link beneath it on graboid that says more info- and when you click it, it takes you to either IMDB, the TV GUIDE listings, or the production co. that released the movie- that’s all you have to do to ensure you’re downloading a legit copy- take 2 seconds to click that more info button.
All of the issues that have been broached in this forum by commentors are actually ALL listed in the forums, and very easy to avoid. I don’t mean to sound rude, but the thin is, these people aren’t actually bothering to read the forums. Language tracks are the simplest things in the world to set, JUST READ THE FORUMS. O promise you, any issue you’re having, someone else has had too, and written about the solution for IN THE FORUMS. I haven’t seen a single comment with a valid argument that hasn’t been covered in the forums. SOme of it is just plain old acclimating oneselves with the software- click preferneces and options on the listing screen, and most things discused here can be resolved there- and again, if not~ guess what? ITS IN THE FORUMS. if you feel that you shouldn’t have to read the directions, then maybe it’s just not the right site for you.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
In regards to Alex…Alex posted on the Graboid forum one time…and it was to criticize…not to ask for help. I can fix virtually any problem unless its the server hops…can’t fix that. Alex is another example of someone that THINKS they know whats going but is obviously out of the loop. Had he posted in the forum with a a question…I remote connect with users all the time to get them working and in the last 2 or 3 months I have done this with about 30 + people….only two of them had connection issues that I could do nothing with.
Alex, learn to ask for help instead of thinking you understand what you do not.
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Net Flix is legal? Correct?
Net Flix is $8.99 for unlimited streaming play and 1 physical DVD rental at a time if I am not mistaken.
So while you’re dishing out $8.99 a month you have access to everything that’s out on DVD or TV show in high quality.
So if you pay for Graboid, the things you get with it and not with Net Flix are the downloadable feature for Graboid, but I mean as long as you’re members of both sites, whether you download or not won’t matter b/c you can watch whenever you want, it will only matter if you choose to make copies or transfer to non-members etc…
Also, the actual content not on Net Flix would be the new movies that haven’t been released on DVD yet… is that all?
So these days, anything recent prime time TV, or DVD that is downloadable or movies that haven’t come out in DVD yet is not allowed to be viewed or downloaded online, is that the consensus for legality?
I can understand the movies in movie theatre issue, but is the line of legality cut between streaming and downloading? Just wondering…
October 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
hi i have had graboid now for 2 mnths, im really happy with the service and dont really care about the legallity’s of it all… what i would like to know is when i save the stuff ive downloaded does it use up extra space on my hard drive? should i be deleting after watching?
October 19th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Everything you download goes to your hard drive, but why delete your movies, you are using your bandwith which you are paying for, I suggest you buy an external hard drive, and create a library for your movies, TV series, and anything else you may want to keep, hopes this helps.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Swoosh = Netflix “streaming” does not work the way you think. The movies you can download instantly are a much smaller set of what Netflix’s DVD library is – basically most of what you find for free on legitimate hosting sites (Hulu/Netflix) is available that way because the copyright owner is allowing free access through that source for whatever reason is deemed to benefit them in doing so. While I find some things I really enjoy through the Netflix instant online library, most people would likely be disappointed by the selections (e.g lots of old British TV shows and foreign films). They do host things like the first two seasons of Weeds and Dexter and then the season premieres of these series or new shows but that is obviously Showtime giving you your first vial of crack for free. Not that I use crack or advocate anyone else doing so…..
November 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am
READ WHOLE POST PLEASE! READ WHOLE POST PLEASE!
Sorry to yell however I want to be a prominent voice here after 117 comments.
FIRST OF ALL THIS GRABOID SOFTWARE IS LEGAL, WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THE CONTENT IS WHEN IT BECOMES ILLEGAL. EVEN IF YOU VIEW THE MOVIE YOUR COMPUTER STILL DOWNLOADS A COPY OF IT WHICH IS ILLEGAL EVEN IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO SAVE IT! THE DOWNLOADED COPY IS IN A TEMPORARY FILE ON YOUR COMPUTER, AND AFTER DOING 2 DAYS OF RESEARCH ON COMPUTER DATA, ONCE DATA (IE A MOVIE) IS WRITTEN TO A HARD DRIVE IT CAN NEVER BE FULLY DELETED SHORT OF REMOVING YOUR HARD DRIVE AND PHYSICALLY MELTING THE ENTIRE THING. GET CAUGHT WITH A COPY OF ANYTHING COPYWRITED AND THE MAX PENALITY IS 25 YEARS AND $250,000 USD. HAVING SAID THAT, BELOW IS A REPOST OF A FORUM POST ABOUT YOU GETTING IN TROUBLE or not FOR USING GRABOID.
NOW FOR YOU SUCKERS THAT ARE PAYING FOR THE PROGRAM OR DOING COMPLICATED THINGS TO GET FREE ACCOUNTS HERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION:
TO GET A FREE ACCOUNT INSTALL A PROGRAM CALLED DEEP FREEZE (YOU WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE IT LEGALLY or DOWNLOAD IT FROM RAPIDSHARE, DO THIS FIRST!) ONCE YOUR COMPUTER IS FROZEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL GRABOID AND CREATE A NEW USER ACCOUNT. WHEN YOUR BANDWIDTH IS USED UP SIMPLY RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AND BEGIN BY DOWNLOADING A FRESH COPY OF GRABOID ETC. (THE OLD ONE WILL DISAPPEAR WHEN YOU RESTART)
PS IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE MOVIE YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED MOVE IT TO A THUMBDRIVE OR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE BEFORE YOU RESTART YOUR COMPUTER OR THE MOVIE TOO WILL BE LOST FOREVER.
PS….. DEEPFREEZE IS A POWERFUL PROGRAM IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD AND KEEP YOUR INSTALL FILE IF YOU WANT TO EVER, EVER REMOVE IT!!!!!
November 20th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Guys, at the end of the day, you cannot complain about something that gives you free/very cheap movies. If it wern’t for this site, you would be paying $20 for a single film or paying for the cinema. It is stupid to moan about how expensive it is to use when you are basically saving a shit load of money!
I have been using Graboid for a year now. And the only times that i have any problems are when i don’t pay attention to what i am downloading. They have lots of info on there now as to how many people have voted on the downloads to say they work etc. It also shows the sources in which they came from, i.e DVD/CAM etc. So the only way that you can download a crappy one now is by not reading all the info given.
Graboid all the way!
December 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
When an individual pays for something, such as a membership, they are NOT getting something for nothing. Everyone who purchases a membership is NOT getting to watch movies for free. It’s a marketing tool. AND…Movie producers can easily gain royalties off of membership fees. It’s not illegal to record a movie in a theater it is illegal to SELL the recorded movie and nobody is selling any movies on Graboid they are selling memberships. Trust me it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Graboid doesn’t give you that much memory. The smart movie makers and actors have taken advantage of this, which is totally cool, and they profit off of websites who offer their movies whether via dvd, online, video recorded. For every video that is recorded by a private viewer that is one less dvd for the producers to produce BUT they still make money. The people who love movies and watch movies religiously will STILL BUY the movie dvd if they like it. Which seems fair considering you can pay ten dollars for a movie theater ticket to a shitty movie but the producer doesn’t care if you like it or not they still want to take your money. It all goes and comes around in the end. If a movie is good or great then the producers and actors have nothing to worry about.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
i have been using graboid and a while now and have no problems, they did reply to my email about refunding me some content due to foreign lang film and they didnt do it, but i do get good quality films/dvd and love watching them// not a scam/ watch a lot ///
December 14th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
i have been using graboid and a while now and have no problems, they did reply to my email about refunding me some content due to foreign lang film and they didnt do it//no other problems//
January 5th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
ok, ive just browsed through these opinions about graboid to see if its legal and the only one that seems to have any substance is from the “geek” but my biggest conserne is that people are taking the time to write entire storys?
i mean how many of these replys are genuine? surely theres someone out there governing copywrite laws i.e { f.b.i }joke, they would put a warning out for the consumers using the site ect.
i cant even use a computer and i found this site, as for grabiod the qualitys not great and most of the films do look pirated ive used my free allowense “thanks graboid” but i think i stick to the full/high quality cinemas?
peace out u sados
January 8th, 2010 at 7:24 am
I installed Graboid yesterday and downloaded my first movie which failed at 99%. When I looked at the download folder, I saw there were a number of .rar files. So I just used winrar to extract the movie – job done. I’ll see how I get on with my 4000Mb this month then decide if I want to pay a monthly membership fee.
January 9th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
let me jus say its not free u get a free trial of 4000 mb u use then u have to pay 4.99 for 10 gb monthly 2gb per day 15.99 for 50,000 mb its not a scam because me an my friends use it all the time only thing i think could be wrong with it is if it is all pirated torrents downloads super fast with cable internet
January 10th, 2010 at 2:18 am
Shut down and restart the program after you have finished downloading movies and you’ll get your whole 4000mb back to download more…
January 13th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
found graboid other day when looking for movies to download whether it’s legal or illegal not a problem with me anything that’s free has to be good..
January 16th, 2010 at 2:26 am
How is it a scam?
It’s simple if you read the small lines it’s written that they will use your hard drive, processor and bandwith to provide the other users.
And they will try to protect your informations but are not legally responsible.
And if you download more than 4gb it will cost something.
March 13th, 2010 at 3:07 am
GRABOID is AWESOME and is saving us a bundle in Cable and Movie Rentals
March 15th, 2010 at 11:37 am
I’m a little surprised this got by ALL of you, Graboid is most definitely a scam, i had it for two days and was painfully obvious to me what they were doing. You need to watch your usage carefully. If you start to watch a movie to confirm its quality before you down load it, I’m talking just a few minutes here, grabbed will subtract the total bandwith from your usage for the entire movie. Which means if for any reason you have to stop and restart the same movie, you lose all that bandwith from your usage plus the bandwith to watch or download it. or if you find that it wasnt the movie you thought it was and stop watching it, your still going to lose the total bandwith. i suppose the only way around it is to download the movie without viewing it first or only watch what you download and never watch anything streaming. And yes it is way OVERPRICED. Why would anyone pay $15 a month and only be able to watch if your lucky 3 hd or high quality movies a month(thats only if they don’t screw you out of your bandwith usage), when you can get most of there TV show for free at sites like hulu, or join netflix for $8 a month and get unlimited streaming movies and 2dvd at a time, as many as you can watch and send back and forth per month. Id rather not get screwed and wait for the legal version to come out on DVD and get it from netflix. Because graboid is all bootleg copies, theres is no way to know if the copy you download is glitched, poor quality, stutters, or is just copied poorly until its to late and you wasted your bandwith and or money. The one movie i did get to download and watch was given good reviews for its quality by several hundred ppl, it stuttered many times, at key points (when the action picked up), i have a high end gaming comp. thats all about video, so it was the copy. likely it was the program they used to compress it. Anyway i really thought graboid had something here, its disappointing to realize its a scam and a expensive one at that.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:51 am
oops my mistake its 50g per month for $15, so if you dont get screwed out of the bandwith you could watch up to 6 movies a month, most hd or high quality movies seem to run around 8g a shot.
April 18th, 2010 at 1:47 am
I just wanted to say that kshutch is awesome! Thanks for all the helpful info you post on the Graboid Forums as it has helped me tremendously. I haven’t had a chance to check your site out but I plan on doing that soon! Anyone needing help don’t hesitate to listen to this guy as he knows what he is talking about and is very reliable. Thanks again
April 20th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Just 2 cents worth. I used the service a couple of years ago I think, maybe one year. It has some quirks, for sure. However, after you learn how to use it (just do one movie at a time is a hint) I found it a good service. They cancelled charges with no problem. I would think the content is bootleg, but maybe a little less likely to have malware than torrents.
May 21st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Graboid is great. By the way, I’ve noticed that the divx videos are the best quality, so I would recommend downloading those first. I love graboid and recently upgraded to the $4.99 plan. Great software, I give 2 thumbs up.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Graboid is great been using it for the last 2 years on the silver membership never had any major problems, only when they used to charge you every month even when you dont re-new for the new month, but all that is fixed you simply go to account and cancel your subscription, otherwise its automatic “for your convinience”. great application they should make one for torrents…or let me know if anyone knows of any..
June 20th, 2010 at 8:41 am
I have had a problem with graboid for a while now. I couldnt make unlimited free accounts and i had tryed everything. New emails, uninstaling and reistalling, file searches, but graboid still remebered me. I was about to give up because i didnt want to pay until i found this.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZVOEJ4KK
Just run it before you open graboid and in graboid it will bring you to the create a new account page and you can make another free account because it resets graboid to its first installation thing so it forgets your IP address. The best bit is that you can do this as many times as you want. Dont as me how it works because i dont know. It just does. Im so happy now. UNLIMITED FREE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS!!!!
Graboid is legal and not a scam. The reason why it is legal is because it dosent host the illegal stuff, just links to it. So therefore isnt illegal. Also, Since this hack I have been using graboid for a week now and have only come across 1 bad film but it wasnt even out in england where i live. Its only out in america and it hasnt been out over there long too. This software IS NOT A SCAM. And if anyone is still hesitant, just make up a load of stuff like that 10 minute email thing and put down your name as bhcddbwcvi dvbikbvsbvk or something.
July 19th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I’ve had my issues with Graboid, but up against the scam “survey” sites it is pretty good.! What does amaze me is that people are talking about “scam” and at the same time bragging about making multiple “free” accounts just to defraud graboid of a few bucks. Hypocrites! Look, for $4.99 a month, 10,000mb is pretty decent and I get to watch all the tv series I miss out on. I don’t begrudge Graboid the funds, and I pay for the ease of use. A lot of “free” movie and tv sites promise to ‘unlock’ the movie after you complete a simple survey. When you complete the survey you will find that having put in your mobile phone number you’ve just been scammed for between $40 and $$$. Graboid provides a decent service, not always up to scratch. Yes if you don’t use the bandwidth you lose it. During recent server problems where you couldn’t download anything over 60 days old you lost the bandwidth and they did not reply to your emails. Shit happens. I canceled my sub in about ten seconds and was not charged again. I recently resubbed and downloads are fine. Personally I only watch tv series either not available in my country, or that I’ve missed. I have a bit of an issue with people who talk in one breath about “scams” and then perpetrate their own scam by opening multiple free accounts. It really is hypocritical. Anyway, $4.99 a month for 10,000mb is well worth it to get my fix of Doctor Who and True Blood.