Sony Wants iTunes For Movies

Source : BBC

Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at a US Digital Hollywood conference that it wanted to create an "iTunes" for films.
Films will be put onto flash memory for mobiles over the next year, said Mr Arrieta, and it will develop its digital download services for films.
Movie studios are keen to stop illegal file-sharing on peer-to-peer nets and cash in on digital the download market.
Movie piracy cost the industry £3.7bn ($7bn) in 2003, according to analysts. The movie industry body, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has started a campaign of legal action against operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect peer-to-peer networks.
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