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Movie download deals? Who cares?

By mwelch November 29, 06 04:33 PM

Source: Ars Technica

Time Warner and Blockbuster are talking about entering the movie download business. Netflix has been working on a digital download system for a while. Wal-Mart announced that next year it will begin testing a video download service on its web site. And BitTorrent plans to announce major studio deals which will allow the purchase or rental of movies and TV shows in February. The only problem? While studios are finally ready to embrace digital distribution, no one has got the consumer-friendly details right. Due to hostile, hard to use anti-piracy schemes...these services are hard to use. And we've talked before about how well that works in the market. Um, it doesn't.

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061129-8314.html

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