The future of video content is online. Graboid.com is going to offer free streaming movies and TV Shows online.
The fellas behind this startup are saying that this isn’t a peer to peer thing so I wonder how they plan on streaming tens of thousands of movies and TV shows across various genre for free?! At time of writing their were only 389 beta invites left from the 1000 that are offered. So my advice to you is too run and sign up now! Free is always good.
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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.
Beth on May 9th, 2007
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Wow, guess I signed up just in time
coconut on May 13th, 2007
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So, I received an invitation, the email looks a lot like a spam:
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Subject:
Graboid: you’ve been invited to sign up
Body:
You have been invited to signup for Graboid Beta.
To accept the invitation, click the following link: http://www.graboid.com.
There are only [3-digit-number-here] spots remaining!
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Who invited me? And why?
Looking up graboid.com whois information tells me only that they used godaddy.com to register the domain…
On the website, it says © 2007 Fusenet Inc. without any link to the company’s website, no “about us” link either.
On the blog, 2 posts signed by “Ryan” and “Sanjay”: one asking you to believe that they are not a mpaa honeypot, and one telling that they are setting up some big servers because they are not using p2p
On the FAQ they attempt to answer the questions “What is Graboid?”, “How do I download?” and “Where do I sign up?”, but not one word about the most important question: “Is it Legal in the US?”
Something don’t smells right here, if they are not p2p, this means that they will be serving this “29447 movies and shows” themselves, and if that is the case, giving the benefit of the doubt and for a moment assuming they are not an mpaa honeypot, either they have the permission to distribute everything(possibly charging+maybe a deal with CBS and others) or they are running the service in a somewhat controversy/obscure/illegal way (servers on sealand :)) and this is the reason for hiding up details about the company…
In any case, no thanks for now, waiting is the safest bet here.
fnuz on July 27th, 2007
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check out also http://www.fnuz.com there are plenty of websites where you can watch movies, cartoons, animes, tv series online for free
enjoy
Marge on September 6th, 2007
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I just stumbled on the site and it is tempting… I got as far as the agreement which says several times that they will use my bandwidth to provide content to me and others.
I don’t know what the mpaa honeypot is that coconut refers to, but should I be concerned about unwanted access to my pc if I use the graboid software?
Thanks.
Eleanor on September 8th, 2007
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A great website where to watch free TV online it’s:
http://www.tvonline.2ya.com
Lot of webradio & webTV like MCM, MTV, Eurosport, ESPN, CNN, ABC, SKYNEWS, Discovery channel, Sci-fi channel, NASA TV, Research channel, and more.
sandra on December 7th, 2007
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I am a member, but I cannot get the list of categories on the left side of the page. What am I doing wrong. Your directions are no help.
Kshutch on January 7th, 2008
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So I am a member at graboid. And yes graboid is legal…I understand how they work and there is no law suggesting that they aren’t legal. They don’t host anything, they aren’t using links to other websites either. The pratice they use is older than the internet itself. But the end result, if you can not figure it out on your own, is just enjoy it…cause its the best thing out there right now and may stay that way for a while. It works, so be happy!
Bookitty on January 13th, 2008
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YA!
I’m a BETA member! It’s really great! Definatly the best there is at the moment. If there’s better, I haven’t found it.
Norman Roberts on February 2nd, 2008
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NSR has over 350 free movie sites with the latest releases
http://www.nosubscriptionrequired.net/
Geekdad on February 7th, 2008
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Find a Subscription Coupon here http://uncovered4you.blogspot.com/2007/12/graboid-200-off-coupon-expires-dec-9th.html
Ron P on March 1st, 2008
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WTF so many great movie sites out there list a few: http://www.tvraid.com, http://www.moviesister.com and http://www. http://www.alluc.org.
play_date on March 20th, 2008
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play_date on March 20th, 2008
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any way ive tried it and its great loving it already. thankz and good luck
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darren on April 5th, 2008
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y is people think graboid is the best ist shite ,yes im still with them sometimes there good sometimes there bad i get bad most of the time like downloads what stop when they get to 99%done and dont come down .my speeds are good they do come down fast when they finish i downloaded a movie in half hour done 1 today still downloading ,,so graboid is shite at times and excellent when it works if there is a program like graboid want to know ,i pay for graboid so ill pay for another simler program…
Jason on April 6th, 2008
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hey, im a graboid member right now as well, and honestly ive never seen a better program for getting free vids. damn quick too, i was downloading at almost 600kb/s yesterday. definately worth a try
emeli on July 20th, 2008
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can you download the movies and burn them in a disc? NO! i dont plan on selling. i just want to watch them on a bigger screen instead of my little ass computer one.
m20 on September 2nd, 2008
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Kenya on September 2nd, 2008
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I upgraded as of 8/5/08 to Graboid Gold plan for 29.99 and it has been malfunctioning every since. Wasn’t surprised today when I attempted to open it up and it no longer exist. WOW!!! Then when I went online to their website, it no longer exist either. What’s up with that. Good thing I paid through paypal. I immediately cancelled. What a rip off. You may wanna stop advertising Graboid. Is there anything else to watch shows/movies on, that is reliable of course?
Kenya on September 2nd, 2008
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Kshutch
I remember you. You help me a lot with graboid. Tell me something, what’s up with Graboid now? I can’t even get them to come on at all. It saying that it doesn’t exist. And when I go online to their website, it doesn’t come up. It’s saying that there is not website by that name. What? Have they just disappeared? Ran off with lots of money. Well, I cancelled my subscription with them as of today. Can you tell me if you have been able to open Graboid today? Or anyone else…have you guys opened your Graboids today?
Tiago on September 4th, 2008
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OMFG, are people stupid or just willing to be?
I am going to say loud and clear…
GRABOID USES PAYPAL SERVICES AND FOR THAT THEY (AS A COMPANY) NEED TO BE LEGAL..
Sometimes i wish that people would do some research before they open thier mouths..
been with them since Beta V0.9 or something. and i always get 700Kbts my internet is dial-up up-to 4MBs.
Tiago on September 4th, 2008
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PLUS… Graboid still works . GRABIOD HAS NEVER STOP WORKING U STUPID DIC8EADS. I HATE PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
grabiod.com works and yet still the best service on the net.
If people not sure about the safty, then get in your stupid car waste 3 miles of petrol and rent a movie, ohh and the next day dont forget to put the movie next to the key or u will be paying the late fees. i hate haters…………..
Hyder on September 4th, 2008
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Geez people, would ya all relax in here.