Looks like some people in Hollywood are forward thinking. According to the news from the BBC Morgan Freeman has decided to setup a company to start a download service in order to make it easier and more attractive to purchase and download legally rather than pirate.
ClickStar Inc will sell “premium movies” and entertainment programmes to internet users, the Oscar winner said.
Freeman said: “Our goal is to deliver first-run premium entertainment to film fans around the world and to make film easier to buy than to pirate.” ..[and that] the new service would address “the growing worldwide consumer demand for digital content – especially filmed entertainment”…
It was founded by Freeman’s production firm Revelations and Intel computers but no film studios have yet signed up.
Certainly sounds like a good move, but no content? Well I guess with Intel on board and the story from the other day about the major studios working hard to produce their content in digital, downloadable formats, then I doubt they will be far off actually selling something!
John was right, the momentum is building and it’s gaining strength. This move right out of Hollywood is really exciting and if they keep this pace up then downloading a movie even before it arrives on DVD might not be that far away.
