movie downloads studios

Hollywood gives blessing to BitTorrent store

News Despite the reputation of BitTorrent's software for helping people illegally share millions of unauthorised video files, company managers have convinced studios such as 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that the company... [26 Feb 2007]

Minority Report: Apple in your living room

Comment By comparison the recent Unbox movie download service from Amazon has a catalogue of well over 1,000 movies and TV shows from six major Hollywood studios and several independent studios and TV networks. [09 Oct 2006]

Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker

News That has long been part of the technology's draw for record labels and movie studios, which are fearful that content protection flaws will lead to films and music being swapped freely online. One service provider, the British network BSkyB, even... [27 Sep 2006]

Steve Jobs

AS Profile It's a testament to Jobs' clout that he's already had some success in getting movie studios - who have been traditionally sceptical about that whole 'interweb downloading thingy' - to commit their content. [25 Sep 2006]

Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads

News The studios are Miramax, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures. Movies from four studios owned by The Walt Disney Company will be available on iTunes 7, the new version of the download software, the same day they are... [13 Sep 2006]

Apple set for big push on the living room?

News But the "showtime" part of the Apple press conference is expected to be an announcement that Apple has secured deals with movie studios to distribute films through the iTunes Music Store. If the analysts and enthusiasts are on target, the iTunes... [12 Sep 2006]

AOL moves into movie downloads

News AOL is adding digital movie downloads from several studios to its video site and providing more on-demand TV shows. The company said on Thursday it has cut deals with several movie studios - Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film... [25 Aug 2006]

Hollywood ready for DVD burning

News The reason for this is that Hollywood studios feared downloads would be easily pirated. The association, made up of Hollywood studios, consumer electronics and software companies, licenses CSS to those in the DVD industry to protect content. [11 Aug 2006]

BitTorrent cuddles up to movie studios

News The file-sharing company announced on Monday it has signed licensing deals with four independent movie studios that will allow it to sell 1,600 video titles over the internet. Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's co-founder and president, said: "This shows... [11 Jul 2006]

BSkyB P2P deal warms studios to movie downloads

News While movie studios have traditionally kept download services at arm's length, the success of legal downloads in the music world may have endeared them to the model. BSkyB has charmed several major movies studios into allowing it to provide a legal... [10 Jan 2006]

Hollywood buddies up with Bram Cohen

News Hollywood studios announced an agreement with Bram Cohen, the creator of the popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology, that will keep him from helping users find pirated copies of movies online. As a result, he has not been the target of... [23 Nov 2005]

Hollywood studios to sue UK man over BitTorrent site?

News A UK man who runs a website that once supported the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application is facing the threat of being sued by four major US movie studios. The movie studios are not interested in preventing copyright infringement so... [21 Mar 2005]

Cheapo MP3 site investigated

News Record labels and movie studios have sometimes had difficulty persuading Russian law enforcement to deal with piracy problems. A Russian digital-music site offering high-quality song downloads for just pennies apiece is the target of a criminal... [23 Feb 2005]

Check your kids' computers for file-swapping

News Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers last week, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. After initially letting record labels take the lead, movie studios have launched their own... [31 Jan 2005]

Napster looking to enter movie downloads

News MovieLink is backed by major cinemas, including MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers Studios, while CinemaNow has big name partners including Disney and Microsoft. [24 Jan 2005]

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