Downloadable Warner movies to buy or to rent

[Bob Crabtree]

The rise and rise of legal video downloads continues apace. Latest news is that downloadable dubbed versions of Warner Bros' movies and TV programmes go on sale in Germany in March - distributed by peer-to-peer file-sharing.

This follows on from last week's introduction of a sports-clips and (complete) movies download service - Sky by broadband - that's free to Sky's premium subscribers, comes news that downloadable dubbed versions of Warner Bros' movies and TV programmes are expected to go on sale in Germany in March at similar prices to DVDs, with distribution carried out by peer-to-peer file-sharing.

Although The Wall Street Journal makes a big play of Warner using previously-reviled P2P file-sharing technology (forgetting to mention that so do BSkyB and AOL), the bottom line is that Warner movies and TV programmes are already available for legal download elsewhere.

AOL with its In2TV rental service is one supplier and Warner is the mainstay of the movie offerings from UK-based LOVEFiLM.com - a company that, along with BSkyB, Intel says it's working closely with, "to bring on-demand entertainment to the home".

Check out the HEXUS.headline.

Then let us know if you agree that it really is starting to look as if 2006 will be the year when legal video downloads move into the big-time.

[TiG]

So any reason why not the UK???.

TiG

[Funkstar]

licensing probably

[Bob Crabtree]

Why would you want German-language movies?