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To: TimF who wrote (260)	11/11/2002 11:50:33 AM
From: i-node	of 7936

Seeking to protect movies from the rampant online piracy that afflicts the music industry, five major film studios plan to begin offering today rental feature films that consumers can download from a Web site for a fee. 1) This, over a few years, should help the sagging (word is understatement of the year nominee) bandwidth industry, more than any other thing I can think of. 2) At least they're not as late to the party as they were/are in the music end of the business. The music business continues to lose tons of revenue to piracy because they didn't have the gumption to get on board up front. Movielink customers have 30 days to watch the films they download, after which the films will disappear from the hard drives. Once someone clicks "play" in the software provided by Movielink, that person has 24 hours to watch the movie. The film cannot be transferred to another device once it is downloaded to a computer. 3) It'll be interesting to see how long it takes professional pirates to crack THIS. Guesses, anyone?

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