On the heels of the recent agreement that BitTorrent made with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to no longer allow film piracy on the landmark downloading site, the Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group has joined with Bit to leverage the company’s peer-assisted delivery system. This unprecedented agreement allows Warner Brothers to become the first major film studio to provide all legal content through the BitTorrent download publishing online format.
WB and Bit will launch their joint venture beginning this summer with the release of over 200 combined TV shows, new film releases, and such favorites as “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” “The Matrix,” “Corpse Bride,” Pacino’s “Dog Day Afternoon” and the Chevy Chase comic cult-classic “National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation.”
The biggest news for scifi fans will be the availability of “Babylon 5.”
Warner Brothers and BitTorrent feel this is a match made in entertainment-internet heaven and look forward to a long a properous relationship.
I wouldnt hold your breath on this one- I think that the actual benefits to the consumer will be little to most likely none- this is just going to be used as a way to save on bandwidth costs. It also won’t be branded as Bittorrent as that has too many negative conotations, the MPAA just won’t allow it.