Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing

[dubstylee]

In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell movies and television shows online in Germany using peer-to-peer technology.

Warner Bros. is working with Bertelsmann AG and its subsidiary Arvato to create a service called In2Movies, to launch in March. The service will feature movies dubbed into German, including "Batman Begins" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," for a fee that Warner says will be similar to the cost of a DVD. It will also offer television shows like "The O.C." and locally made programs and movies. Users, who will have to register for the service, will be able to keep the movie indefinitely. But instead of getting a movie from a central server, pieces of it could come from other people on the network who also bought that movie.

Read the complete article

[Jorge]

"But instead of getting a movie from a central server, pieces of it could come from other people on the network who also bought that movie." So it's using BitTorrent?

[boogiedan]

nice post
all i have 2 say is
let's have it
Warner Bro's

hoot hoot!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fudge Tunnel]

"for a fee that Warner says will be similar to the cost of a DVD" - that's where the problem will still lie. This sounds just like the problem with Napster- too damn expensive. For the same price as a DVD I get files possibly loaded with DRM, no cover material, inlays etc, artwork, and I very much doubt that the quality will be the same unless they let you download dual layer .vob encodes in which case you would still have to purchase dual layer discs to burn them onto which are also overpriced.
I think that until the industry starts allowing the product to reflect the price there will be very few takers on the legitimate front.

[MorphineInduced]

i dont see the big advancement time warner is doing here...... some leap they jumped towards the future......

[Theinfamousone]

Yeah, and even if they let you download the full 8 gig version, why would I take the 3 days to do that when I could just get it at Wal Mart for half the price of a normal DVD.