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The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery

Posted by timothy on from the soon-you'll-rent-your-own-home-movies dept.

Con Zymaris writes "Here's another piece on the how the movie studios are trying to co-opt the movie delivery mechanisms of the 'counter-culture' set, but instill major restrictions such as IP-address range verification to ensure country of origin, and maximum 24-hour-play lifetime for each downloaded movie."

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  1. Whatever the case may be... by Longinus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...let's just hope their latest scheme is as successful as Divx was ;-).

  2. Re:Too bad... by ejeet · · Score: 5, Funny

    # Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher and Windows 98, 2000, or higher preferred.

    'higher preferred'...That means Linux right?