As if it weren’t enough of a reason to freak out that Lady Gaga’s much-anticipated album Born This Way is out today–on a Monday, even though most albums come out on Tuesdays–Amazon.com has sweetened the deal.
Amazon’s been doing $3.99 sales on MP3 versions of selected new albums for a bit, which ensures them high placement on the …
Miramax has signed a multi-year agreement granting Netflix streaming access to its library of movies, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The English Patient and the Scream franchise. The agreement, the first of its kind for the studio, will allow Netflix access to “several hundred” movies beginning next month, although it’s believed the …
When is streaming movies online not streaming movies online? That’s not the set-up for some existential movie piracy joke, but the question at the heart of a lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and a company called Zediva.
Zediva offers a video-on-demand service that it believes avoids the problems that have …
This just in: a breaking report from The Galactic Empire Times is stating, per a press conference called by Lord Vader himself, that Obi-Wan Kenobi — the universe’s most wanted terrorist — is dead.
Vader’s speech was stern yet brimming with optimism:
“For over two decades, Kenobi has been the Jedi rebellion’s leader and
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Did you illegally download a copy of The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s old-school macho get-together fight-fest from last year? If so, watch your inbox: You’re likely one of the more than 23,000 file sharers being sued for doing so by the US Copyright Group in what is now the largest BitTorrent downloading case in US legal …
Starting today, YouTube is adding thousands of Hollywood-produced movies for rent, hoping to make the site more than just a place for Keyboard Cat and Chocolate Rain.
YouTube rentals aren’t a new concept. The Google-owned site has played around with movie rentals since last year, when it allowed users to pay for movies that were …
The Mounties are sick of playing copyright police.
According to a 2006 diplomatic cable between Canada and the U.S. that recently came to light through WikiLeaks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officially express “skepticism” about movie piracy via camcorder users, and believe that their time would be better spent chasing down real …
If you thought it was impossible for entertainment juggernaut Warner Bros. to have even more under its belt beyond the WB Network and – of course – the Harry Potter films, then a little announcement today might persuade you otherwise.
With ambitions to expand its digital rollout, the company has agreed to purchase popular …
It’s Star Wars Day, that wonderful time of year where the collective Internet body comes together to make cheeky puns about our favorite fantasy universe.
Let’s face it: Star Wars Day is an Internet holiday, something to distract us between water cooler breaks and office memos, but it’s joyous nonetheless. Today, Lucas Film announced …
You’ve seen them once, twice, thrice, and who knows, probably more. I can’t stand to watch them myself, what with out-of-place one-liners like “no one tosses a dwarf,” the scene where John Rhys-Davies harumphs off a horse, and the tone-shattering sequence in Return of the King where Orlando Bloom surf-skis like Brett Michaels …
Down, down, to obsolescence town–that might just be the broad-view takeaway from Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group’s recent sales report (via Financial Times), which suggests new DVD sales in the U.S. plunged 20% over the past 12 months.
It wasn’t just customers fleeing a sinking ship: DEG notes the drop was in part due …
Spotify hasn’t even launched in the US yet, but rumor has it the European streaming music service may offer far more than just songs to wile away the hours. Recent buzz suggests Spotify plans to roll out a premium streaming movie rental service for customers this fall, and offer subscribers VoD access to features just weeks after …
