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Internet Movies Before DVD

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-it-now dept.

alfrin writes "Actor Morgan Freeman and Intel are starting a company that will sell movies over the Internet before they are released to DVD. "We're going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that's to get ahead of the whole piracy thing," Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley after making his presentation, which was closed to the press. Wouldn't this just make it easier to pirate movies?"

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  1. Re:Piracy for the Sake of Piracy. A.K.A. hoarding by Cecil · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, you absolutely did not. The AC is wrong. DIVX was Circuit City's DRM-disc format. Wikipedia has never heard of "DIVIX", nor has Everything2, nor any other reputable site I can find. The only reference to "DIVIX" that I can find is on random forums on Google where clueless people are mispelling the name of DivX (the codec)

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