Warner Bros. to Sell Movies Over BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 9, 2006 @01:07AM from the a-little-looser-rules-please dept.

martinmarv writes "The BBC is reporting that Warner Bros. is to sell movies over BitTorrent. Disappointingly, the pricing is set to be about the same as the DVD, even though the download will only become available at the same time as the DVD release, and can only play on one machine. In distributing films via download, Warner will join the ranks of MovieLink and CinemaNow. Perhaps they should wait to see how their $1.50 experiment works out first?." From the article: "Other Hollywood studios are now likely to launch similar services. They believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie rather than risk illegally swapping a computer file that could contain viruses or be a poor quality copy of a film. "

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This is an attack, not a compromise by phorm · 2006-05-09 02:59 · Score: 0, Troll

Let's see, so for about the same price you:

- Don't get the DVD
- Don't see it any sooner than normal
- Use up bandwidth to download
- Can't play on a different machine, or format-shift

Seems to me that people aren't going to go for this, but it would give WB the ammunition thereafter to say "see, we tried to make our movies available online, but people still prefer to pirate them"