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MovieLink 2004's Top Film Download Service, So Far

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-the-legal-variety-that-is dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NPD Group has released some research on the fledgling pay digital movie download services. Numbers for the first half of this year show MovieLink as number one with a third of total users followed by MovieFlix with 13% of the market. It's a very small market though, with purchases equalling only 0.3% of the total movie market (and nowhere near the numbers of those trading on the free P2P services). Also of note, 80% of users are male and the top films purchased are sci-fi and fantasy."

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  1. Obligatory Simpsons reference... by OccidentalSlashy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome a Beowolf cluster of our new duplicate-posting, thinly-disguised corporate press release overlords, in soviet Russia, if this article were not pure sensationalism!

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  2. Something's missing by alanbs · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Also of note, 80% of users are male and the top films purchased are sci-fi and fantasy." .... and are in their parents' basement looking the the linux kernel at 4 am with a greasy Frito hand mark across the front of their shirt .... pr0n, ok, pr0n

  3. No Linux support by karniv0re · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must have Windows 98/SE, ME, 2000 or XP, which support certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies.

    We do not anticipate supporting Mac or Linux in the near future.

    I guess I won't be enjoying the Movielink service in the near future either.

  4. Re:Another DNA paradox by Orgazmus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mods + Crack --> Parent == Insightful

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    The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
  5. Not for the non-IE crowd by ramk13 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Movielink may have a more market share, but when I see this:
    "Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies"
    followed by
    "We do not anticipate supporting Mozilla or Netscape in the near future."
    I know I won't be signing up there, and I assume a large fraction of the /. crowd won't be either. Not having good browser support is bad, but then saying you aren't even planning to change that is worse.

  6. Windows only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must have Windows 98/SE, ME, 2000 or XP, which support certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies.

    We do not anticipate supporting Mac or Linux in the near future.

  7. I really don't understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    how this could work, everything is based on speculation andforcing users onto strange and obscure contracts

    export@china-inflatables.com.cn