Miramax to Put Feature Films Online
from the cool dept
Miramax has made a deal with SightSound to experiment with putting feature films online for download. They want to see if people will pay to download a feature film. I think it's pretty cool that such a major player would do this. Though, you know that it won't take long before someone cracks the protection scheme and the movies (or should I say "moviez") are available for free (via Gnutella or something similar) and Miramax and the media freak out. Still, it's a good first step.
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More Piracy.......
I like the idea, but bandwidth is STILL an issue. Until we can 'realtime' request movies [dvd quality], it is just not worth it. They have a few sites that allow viewing of 'independent' movies, at like 18$ for a 30 min movie!!!! Insane, and they cannot be that good.
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