Apple is reportedly planning to get into the movie rental business and license its digital rights management technology, and it could announce a deal within the next few weeks.
Both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Twentieth Century Fox Film has signed a deal with Apple to let iTunes users download new movies and keep them for an unspecified (but likely short) period of time.
Both reports say Apple CEO Steve Jobs will make this news part of his Macworld keynote on January 14.
The reports also says that as part of the deal, Fox is also going to use Apple's FairPlay digital rights management technology on its DVD releases, which would allow DVD buyers to rip their movies onto their computers using iTunes and also move those store-bought movies to iPods and iPhones.
News source: News.com
Both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Twentieth Century Fox Film has signed a deal with Apple to let iTunes users download new movies and keep them for an unspecified (but likely short) period of time.
Both reports say Apple CEO Steve Jobs will make this news part of his Macworld keynote on January 14.
The reports also says that as part of the deal, Fox is also going to use Apple's FairPlay digital rights management technology on its DVD releases, which would allow DVD buyers to rip their movies onto their computers using iTunes and also move those store-bought movies to iPods and iPhones.
News source: News.com
The idea of licensing fairplay seems a good idea, give a little bit of a geeup to the itunes store when theres more competition around now.
I take it that it also means that you must use iTunes to do that. I don't see that going over very well on retail discs.
Last edited by mrmckeb on 31 Dec 2007 - 02:36
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Actually, yours has better sources. Getting information about Fox from news.com (their parent company) isn't exactly unbiased.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=609876
Actually, yours has better sources. Getting information about Fox from news.com (their parent company) isn't exactly unbiased.
News International own a lot of things, but I don't think they own CNet.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=609876
Actually, yours has better sources. Getting information about Fox from news.com (their parent company) isn't exactly unbiased.
News International own a lot of things, but I don't think they own CNet.
My bad... I was thinking news.com == News Corp. But CNet hasn't been reliable for years either.
einsteinbqat's original BPN post sourced Reuters and Financial Times, though, and they're a little bit more reputable to me.
i like the allowig users to rip DVD's, umm we can already do that!!!! how inovative making it 'legal'
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