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Solution For Apple Download Movie Store!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Winnipeg
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P2P! Now hear me out. Apple maintains a database of prices for movies encoded with codec-x whatever they decide to use. Now someone logs on, gives their credit card, and starts downloading, as soon as the movie is done downloading the user is charged the money, and then if someone wants to download the movie, instead of apple's bandwidth, they would download it from that person, and as soon as the download is complete that person's account is credited a small distributor's fee. Say one dollar for an 11 dollar movie? And then you own the content!
Wrap it up in some DRM and thar ya go! Sure it's not as single sourced as the iTMS but it saves a ton on Bandwidth, and probably would have nicer bandwidth charges.
And everyone would be happy 
Of course then they would need to add in the ability to encode your own movies into the software.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Evansville, IN
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The problem is the slow download times for end users. The reason iTMS works so well is because of its "instant gratification" way of buying. You buy a song and ten seconds later you own it. Movies can take hours to download.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: In my tree making cookies
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There isnt a single movie company that will consider this idea to boot. The existing movie download site for windows machine is already a money sinkhole, free bandwidth or not.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Maybe if they used their own bandwidth as a backup, and used Bit Torrent technology if enough users were downloading the movie.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Sorta makes sense. It's not like we aren't all D/Ling BitTorrent movies anyways.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
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BitTorrent has a lot of potential here....
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Sorta makes sense. It's not like we aren't all D/Ling BitTorrent movies anyways.
Shhh shutuuup 
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