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Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the starting-to-get-some-things dept.

gihan_ripper writes "The movie download firms Movielink and CinemaNow have made a deal with the big five studios to ensure that downloads will coincide with DVD releases at Blockbuster and WalMart. Unlike previous deals, these will be full purchase downloads, and not merely for a rental period. The move is aimed at stemming the rising tide of pirate downloads, and DRM will be in force to prevent copying the movies to DVD. The first batch of downloadable movies will include Brokeback Mountain, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and King Kong."

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  1. Order of the Phoenix? by rosalindavenue · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow-- talk about a quickly released download-- they haven't even shot it yet! http://tinyurl.com/p58qk

  2. Thanks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I think I've already dowloaded most of those.

  3. Re:Eh? by necro81 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's some joke reference to Spaceballs to be made here. How can there be a video of Spaceballs - we're still in the middle of making it? Alas, my brain isn't working fast enough this morning.

  4. Obligatory 1984 comment by MonoSynth · · Score: 3, Funny

    'When I was arrested, Apple said that PPC processors were evil.'

    'PPC processors are evil. Good. And Apple always said that PPC processors are evil, has it not?'
    Winston drew in his breath. He opened his mouth to speak and then did not speak. He could not take his eyes away from the dial.

    'The truth, please, Winston. Your truth. Tell me what you think you remember.'
    'I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, Apple used PPC processors. They even proved that they were the better ones. Intel's processors were the evil ones. That had lasted for nine years. Before that '

    Jobs stopped him with a movement of the hand.

    [..]

    'Do you remember,' he went on, ' writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two
    make four"?'
    'Yes,' said Winston.
    Jobs held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
    'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
    'Four.'
    'And if the party says that it is not four but 4.0000000097768 then how many?'
    'Four.'