agree to pal... if u want faster, legal ownership of movies, u buy it. but ofcourse there's some for promotional, personal and education use... it's all up to you on how you treat those movies u download.

also, it depends on wat type of movies, mostly new and current ones are basically illegal, but for those old but goodies are somehow permitted to share online.

for those type of movies, i suggests two things:
first, for online viewing... there are youtube, veoh, google videos, megavideo, joox, supernovatube, imeem etc. that u could check and watch some movies

second, u could download it (as this is what you ask for right?) using different methods; some like, you could use website assistance like keepvid, clipnabber, file2hd, splandoo, downloadflv, mediapirate, feelingtea, video downloader, and many more to check from. just copy and paste the link of video you required to those website and press ok or get or whatever it mentioned there then the original link of the movie will be shown... after you could use download assitance software or use the default download function of your browser.

hope it helps you, but be sure to be responsible for your downloads since most of them has virus, worms and the likes that maybe harm your pc. it also present in torrent methods that's why i suggested first to only watch online rather to download it. it also save some space on your harddrive too.

if you need further assitance you may pm me, hope i could reply back soon. :)