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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
I heard the other day that there's talk of movie studios legitimising downloading of movies in order to counter the current illegal P2Ping of movies.
They have seen what happened to napster and also the various successful ventures such as Apple's Itunes and the suggestion is that the same can happen with movies.
If/When this happens then it would become an incentive to some broadband customers to avoid metered products or seek products that dont have a low cap.
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Read an interesting article in the online Chicago Herald Tribune last week on this. Covering Blockbuster dropping late fees (well kinda) , principally to compete with the netflix/screenselects of this world.
Went on to examine how the whole rental industry is falling apart in a market where you can buy many dvds for $10 (so why rent for $4).
Then went on to the future and the potential colaberation between the movie houses / tivo and netflix cutting out the postal system and delivering your next rental to the HDD of your Tivo box.
Certainly woudn't want to be on metered BB if I was getting an 8GB movie delivered once a week!