The Change Mariner: Movie Downloading Gains Momentum

July 24, 2003

Movie Downloading Gains Momentum

Online movie download service MovieLink has announced a pact with Disney-owned Buena Vista Pay TV to add new releases and select titles from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, Miramax and Dimension films.

The Santa Monica, Calif.-based MovieLink, a joint venture of Vivendi Universal, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., said the addition of the Disney titles would increase its catalog to about 400 titles and give it films from six of the seven major movie studios.

The only major studio missing is 20th Century Fox.

More importantly, it adds legitimacy to the concept of on-demand movie downloads to PCs. The business has been in a state of flux because of piracy on popular peer-to-peer networks and concerns over the quality of digital movies but with most of the major studios hopping aboard, MovieLink appears set to find its niche.

Posted by Norm M. Wada at July 24, 2003 9:21 AM
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