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Is Hollywood ready to embrace the Internet?
From Monday's NY Times: Forget the Bootleg, Just Download the Movie Legally.
After years of avoiding it, Hollywood studios are preparing to let people download and buy electronic copies of movies over the Internet, much as record labels now sell songs for 99 cents through Apple Computer's iTunes music store and other online services.
I'll believe it when I see it. Hollywood's online movie fare continues to be loaded down with DRM and digital time bombs.
Meantime, the Times reporter writes, "there are not easy ways to move movies downloaded onto a PC to a television set. ... At first, the movies will be restricted to playing on a single computer with a television hookup. Some studio executives think this is far too narrow and consumers will want the ability to transfer movies to several computers, to portable devices and possibly to burn them to their own DVD's."
Ya think?
July 4, 2005 at 12:46 AM in Film | Permalink
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