Disney to sell films via the web

Summary:

Disney’s home video arm, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, will make the movies available on the internet. People can download there favourite movie and also the movies that are new to their own computer. They can play the movies on there computer or put it on a DVD. This service will start on 6 June. Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has already started this service via Movielink. So Disney’s latest offer is not exclusive. Movies that can be downloaded from Disney’s new service will be protected to prevent copying.


My opinion.

I think a lot of customers will use the latest service of Disney, but there are a lot of people who will be able to copy these movies. I think it will be a good offer for a lot of parents, because parents don’t like the fact they have to buy a lot of DVD’s for their kids, because DVD’s take a lot of space in their bookcase. So parents will use the latest service of Disney a lot, but I still think that people will copy the movies and sell them to their friends of to the people in their neighbourhood. So I think Disney will make a lot of loose by this service.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5033204.stm