Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release 313
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."
Order of the Phoenix? (Score:3, Funny)
Brokeback (Score:2, Funny)
Eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Amazing! Not only can they transfer movies automagically over copper wires directly into my home, but the cables apparently create an inverse tachyon beam that brings movies in from the future!
It's the Steve Jobs effect. (Score:2, Funny)
I thought the Steve Jobs effect was to make you believe that G5 smokes Intel processors only to a year or two later make you believe the opposite with equal fervor.
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Thanks... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me guess (Score:1, Funny)
The rest of this crap (96kbps MP3 audio and 320x240 resolution) is meaningless!
Re:Eh? (Score:4, Funny)
just face it (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory 1984 comment (Score:4, Funny)
'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.'
Re:Can't Burn? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Brokeback (Score:1, Funny)
Sheepboys, dammit - not cowboys! And besides, sheep lie!