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This is what Peerflix is used for. You can take those movies that you don't watch, and send them to other people for them to watch. Which in turn allows you to get other movies on your list. Rare, obscure movies that you'd never think to even look for are on here.

You keep them forever. There is no cost to join. You can have as many DVD's as you like, for as long as you would like.

http://www.peerflix.com/

The more people that use it, the faster it is.

Check out http://www.peerflix.com/ ... they're not terribly quick, but not too bad on the whole.

As a low-volume user of either service (I've had both in the past), I found I didn't feel like I was getting my membership's worth.

Then I found Peerflix. The service was covered in this /. story from Sept 2005.

Instead of "renting", I "trade" my DVDs. I pay $0.99 every time I have a DVD on my list sent to me, and I pay postage ($0.37 for a single DVD) when I send a DVD to someone else.

What do I think of Netflix and Blockbuster Online? I think Blockbuster has the edge with the monthly in-store coupons...but I felt I received better turn around time and service from Netflix (BB was still in beta at the time).

To be able to get what I want at a good price, I went with Peeflix instead. The way it works is that instead of of having of central warehouse with movies, people just trade between them. When someone wants a movie you have, you pay for the stamp and mail the DVD. When you do so, you get points (they call them peerbux) which you can trade for another movie someone else have. They charge you $0.99 per movie you order. The $0.99 is for the service of connecting people but also for the insurance. If you get a defective disc, you get your points back to get another one.

Each movie takes a bit longer to get to you than with Netflix so you are better to buy a few prewatched DVDs and earn more peerbux than movies you can watch at a time so it cost a bit more to start but once it's started it a lot cheaper ($0.99 + stamp / movie).

Beside it's nice that when you don't want to watch lots of movies, you can just stop returning those you have until you are free to watch them.

And I'm sure that it annoys the MPAA which doesn't make money on it since First Sale enable us to trade our physical goods without restriction once they are first bought :)

Here ya go. Have fun!

http://www.peerflix.com/
peerflix is an interesting way to get movies in the mail. Basically, you are sharing out your own DVD collection with other peerflix members. I've been using it for a few months now, and while it still has a few bugs to work out, it seems promising.