Yahoo Putting Movies Online

limpdawg writes, "Yahoo anounced a deal to put Hong Kong movies on the Internet in order to keep pirates from selling them in alleys. " Of course I'm still living for the day when every piece of video and film is online and available for me to watch whenever I choose... if the first step is some Bruce Lee movies, I'm cool with that.

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Why this might not work..

[Bullschmidt]

New movies would be available on the Website after they had played out in cinemas, on cable television and been released on video compact discs (VCD).

This seems to be the problem here.. pirates don't just get the buyer the product, but they get it before the buyer can go to the video store, rent it and copy it. They are proposing to wait until the movies have become old and out on video (and thus copiable). The movie pirates will still be providing new movies before they are release on rental (or even for sale). I have seen movies posted on the net (as well as seen them on others computers) that weren't even on sale at video stores. This is the pirate niche.