New Movie Download Pay Service

SailorBob writes " After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the green light to its online movie rental service. The Web site, a joint project of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros., will debut Monday with a limited selection of first-run and classic films from the five major motion pictures studios, in a test of the technology to select U.S. residents. Though the film studios have licensed content to other video-on-demand sites, it is the first time they've introduced a service of their own. Of course, just like the new music services, this is also only available to US residents. "

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Re:EVERYBODY!!!

[nanojath]

You know, I'd just like to smack you on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper for what your definition of "ridiculously important" is. Okay, making sure that we (since this is a USA-only service I'll be culturally insensitive and presume we're all Amurr'cuns here) approach a war in Iraq, which will unquestionably involve the use of chemical and possibly biological weapons against our ground troops is
"ridiculously important." Getting some kind of rational scheme for changing our energy economy so it stops accelerating a process of depletion and pollution is "ridiculously important."

Movielink, on the other hand, is a goddamn joke. I can get lower prices, a shorter wait (they don't even say what download times are but their tutorial example shows a 40 minute wait), a more versatile format (maybe you have a broadband enabled computer hooked up to your teevee... I don't), and a much, much, much better selection (there are only about 300 movies on this site, possibly less, it was hard to estimate because of the incredible repetition of titles over genre categories) all at one of the two local viddy stores within a 10 minute drive. This is a terrible deal and the idea that there is some obligation to support the greed of the movie industry so they can bootstrap themselves up to something that isn't a simple ripoff is just plain-old ridiculous. Finally I'm sickened by your image that we are to creep to the Copyright Barons on our knees, caps in hand and tugging our forelocks, obsequiously offering our hard-earned cash so that these grossero rich bastards will deign to dip a fat bejewelled hand down into our scummy little world and grant the internet their blessing. Painted as criminal? If you believe that these publishing and recording interests will ever think of the public as anything else from now on you're off your nut.