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Warner Bros. to sell films via BitTorrent

 
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:25 am    Post subject: Warner Bros. to sell films via BitTorrent Reply with quote

According to MSNBC, Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to distribute its films and TV
shows over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology developed by BitTorrent Inc., the home of a
popular tool for trading pirated copies of movies. The companies did not specify a date but said the
service will be offered sta...read more
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, If they were offering HD versions of the movies for download I'd buy them for DVD prices. On the other hand some crappy encoding that looks worse than DVD I'm not going to pay DVD prices for. The convenience on their end FAR outways the convenience on the consumers.
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the movies should be about $10 or less and be able to be burned once to a DVD Disc so that people can enjoy them elsewhere and not on a PC.
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