In order to help combat piracy, Warner Brothers are set to make television shows and films available legally for download on
BitTorrent. This will include the fourth Potter movie, '
Goblet of Fire', which will be one of the first films to be made available in this manner. The
New York Times reports that the cost should be around the same as a DVD rental.
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"We've been struggling with peer-to-peer technology and trying to figure out a way to harness the good in all that the technology allows us to do," said Kevin Tsujihara, the president of Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group.
"If we can convert 5, 10 or 15 percent of the illegal downloaders into consumers of our product, that is significant."
Source:
Veritaserum