Internet Movies Before DVD

alfrin writes "Actor Morgan Freeman and Intel are starting a company that will sell movies over the Internet before they are released to DVD. "We're going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that's to get ahead of the whole piracy thing," Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley after making his presentation, which was closed to the press. Wouldn't this just make it easier to pirate movies?"

Shawshank

[Ridgelift]

Did anyone else hear Morgan's voice in your head when reading the quote, as if it was a line from "Shawshank Redemption" or "Million Dollar Baby"? Spooky!

Will this make it easier to pirate movies?

[forkazoo]

I dunno. The presentation was closed. I don't know anything about the specifics. If they use hard core DRM, it's possible it wouldn't be cracked. I suppose their first move should be to hire "DVD Jon" and then send him on a permanent vacation with no net access.

Complete Contradiction

[HillaryWBush]

Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley after making his presentation, which was closed to the press.

Is this guy versatile or what?

Re:Will this make it easier to pirate movies?

[Slackrat]

1) Calculate revenue lost to piracy
2) Use said funds to send key hackers to a tropical island with spotty net access and an open bar
3) Piracy defeated.
4) Profit!

Batman in the movie business?

[AussieVamp2]

Or, 'Wayne Enterprises sells movies online' is what actually ran through my head first.

Need a photographic memory to remember all Morgan's roles!

Re:Right.

[rhesuspieces00]

You and youre buddy were either way behind or way ahead of the times if you had Starwars 4 on DVD days after release theatrical release.

This is obviously just a way

[lheal]

for an aging actor to get into Lori McCreary's [yimg.com] pants. I can't blame him - she's easy on the eyes.

O'course, having seen his off-camera personality, I suspect he's more into the one he has his arm around.

Re:Right.

[rhesuspieces00]

but if you read it that way, there really isnt as much opportunity for derisive sarcasm.

Re:Shawshank

[badasscat]

Sorry, but I decided to read it with the voice of Sam Kinison just for yuks.

I mean, the MPAA and RIAA are nuts, right? If only he were alive, he'd make a great spokesman.

Not shrill enough. I'm thinking Bobcat Goldthwait can handle RIAA duties and Gilbert Godfried can run PR for the MPAA.

Now that's a perfect fit.

Re:Shawshank

[Pollardito]

"It was the dumbest business model of Andy Dufresne's career..."

Re:Will this make it easier to pirate movies?

[iphayd]

You forgot this...

2.5) Give hackers eypatches, hooks, and stuffed parrots so they can still be pirates.

Re:Piracy for the Sake of Piracy. A.K.A. hoarding

[Caraig]

Almost by definition, Internet pr0n never gets out of hand....

Re:Piracy for the Sake of Piracy. A.K.A. hoarding

[noidentity]

Of course, there's always the other explanation of hoarding specific items - some people are just natural-born packrats.

Your post will go great in my large collection of posts about consumption. Never know when it will come in handy, and some day Slashdot may not be around...

Re:Shawshank

[RapmasterT]

I totally did. I mentally heard it as "We're going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with mother fucker! and I hope they burn in hell!"

Then I realized I'd read it in Samuel L. Jackson mental voice, and not Morgan Freeman. So I went back and read it again, but it wasn't as funny.