A more fitting analogy would be if someone took a piece of music, redistributed it, tried to claim that they wrote it, and packaged it with other songs you'd likely not want. I don't think very many people around here would support such an action, regardless of how they feel about the digital distribution of music.
Actually, that's not quite accurate. Usually, when a movie is distributed as an MPEG of that size, it's probably already properly encoded to be burned as a VCD/SVCD/XVCD. When you create a VCD out of an MPEG file, you need to be more worried about how long the file is, rather than the file size. This is because VCDs are burned differently than your typical data CD. For instance, you could fit approximately 80 minutes of movie onto a 700 MB CDR encoded as a VCD, even if the MPEG file is larger than 700 MB.
Think of it as similar to burning a music CD. You can "fill up" an 80 minute cd with only about 80 MB of mp3s.
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A more fitting analogy would be if someone took a piece of music, redistributed it, tried to claim that they wrote it, and packaged it with other songs you'd likely not want. I don't think very many people around here would support such an action, regardless of how they feel about the digital distribution of music.
Actually, that's not quite accurate. Usually, when a movie is distributed as an MPEG of that size, it's probably already properly encoded to be burned as a VCD/SVCD/XVCD. When you create a VCD out of an MPEG file, you need to be more worried about how long the file is, rather than the file size. This is because VCDs are burned differently than your typical data CD. For instance, you could fit approximately 80 minutes of movie onto a 700 MB CDR encoded as a VCD, even if the MPEG file is larger than 700 MB.
Think of it as similar to burning a music CD. You can "fill up" an 80 minute cd with only about 80 MB of mp3s.