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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Warner Brothers Discovers Bittorrent

Turning a Napster into an iTunes without shutting it down seems to be WB’s strategy with a new announcement with Bittorrent for delivering movies – amazing. Now the only problem is that users can’t burn them to DVD or watch them on any other PC than the one they downloaded it onto originally. The kicker? They’re going to charge the same price as buying the DVD…. WHAT? Users have a choice of 1) buying a DVD and play it on anything or 2) buy from WB via Bittorrent for the same price but only play in on 1 PC…. hmmm… yeah, started off as a good idea, but this is going to tank…

BBC coverage hereÂ