Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand

af_robot writes "There's an announcement of a secure, DivX video-on-demand service for first-run movies, but only for Bollywood movies. 'Each new Bollywood film is released on the public Internet a day before or on the same day of its theatrical release, through piracy on multiple illegal movie download web sites,' said Al Mason, CEO of Cinema on Web. 'Our partnership with DivXNetworks represents the future of entertainment on the Internet. Soon virtually all new major Bollywood and Hollywood movies, including entertainment will be distributed digitally with secure VOD solutions like the one created by DivXNetworks, simultaneously defeating piracy and generating additional revenue for film studios and producers.'"

Comments

Who cares?

[stratjakt]

What are we outsourcing our DRM now?

How about setting up a secure food delivery system to the victims of the tsunami instead?

Re:Bollywood tidbits

[Nosf3ratu]

Bollywood's viewership is 3.8 billion vs Hollywood's 3.2 billion.

That's just because there's approx. 90 billion people in India.

They sleep on the ceiling, you know.

Re:What's the name of that movie?

[XchristX]

Yeah? well, let's look at some AMERICAN movies, shall we? Boy (i.e Brad pitt, Arnold Schwartzenegger, or that awful Belgian asshole: not Poirot) meets girl (i.e. some eurotrash model with a vagina that smells like week-old sushi) in forest, when nuclear bomb from "Muslim Terrorists" blows up said forest and nearby cities. Boy survives (despite physical impossibility) because God said he would. Boy decides to do the "noble thing" and kill anybody within range of his shiny new bazooka who wears a turban on his head. Boy has sex with girl in public, followed by lots of gratuitous breast-baring. Boy then votes for George Bush and renders humanity extinct (to be continued in sequel). Also, there will be a "prequel" explaining how the model got a smelly vagina. The trouble with American/Desi cinema is that it is managed by Americans/Desis! The difference is that WE are aware that it's all crap. As much as I dislike Europeans, at least their cinema is decent!