MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube

Lithal13 writes to tell us that MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a complete feature-length film on YouTube. Some credit commercial video site Hulu.com for the mended relationship between YouTube parent Google and Hollywood. "YouTube has developed systems that help keep pirated clips off the site and is developing video players that present clearer images than the site's standard player. When it comes to financial terms, Google has proven much more flexible than in the past, according to three studio sources. [...] The only obstacles to Google and YouTube getting more studios to post full-length movies is Google's insistence on a particular ad format, say the sources. They declined to say which ad unit Google prefers. The other hurdle is that some studios are skeptical that users will accept all the ads that need to accompany a feature film in order to make it profitable."

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Uncut and Commercial Free

[camperdave]

I can already download movies uncut and commercial free from the Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. Furthermore, they're full screen, not limited to a quarter screen box with ads surrounding it. Not only that, torrents are not locked to a particular country. I can't watch a thing from Hulu, not even their promotional video, because I'm not in the States. About the only advantage I can see to watching the MGM/Youtube site would be if they released their entire stable of movies. Torrents are great for recent movies, and popular movies, but downloading old movies like "It's Always Fair Weather" can be problematic.

So, unless this service gives me full screen movies, uncut and commercial free, despite my not living in the US, chances are I'll not be using it.