Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing in Germany

Carl Bialik writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Warner Bros. plans to sell TV shows and movies online in Germany via P2P. In2Movies, to launch in March, 'will feature movies dubbed into German, including "Batman Begins" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," for a fee that Warner says will be similar to the cost of a DVD. It will also offer television shows like "The O.C." and locally made programs and movies. Users, who will have to register for the service, will be able to keep the movie indefinitely. But instead of getting a movie from a central server, pieces of it could come from other people on the network who also bought that movie.' The president of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group says, 'Studios can't just turn their backs and hope "P2P" is going to go away tomorrow.'"

Re:Incentive for the user?

[drgreg911]

I, as a member of the people, take offense at that. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.

What?!

[lbmouse]

No Bay Watch or Hasselhoff music videos??

Flashback

[SetupWeasel]

This reminds me of grade school, where an adult against tooth decay or something would try to "speak our language."

Flossing is stupid ill! 23 Skidoo!

The more you give the same you get

[spyrochaete]

This sucks. I read about something like this on /. previously. People fork over their bandwidth, yet they pay fall fare for content. A movie costs the same for a guy with OC12 as it does for a guy on a 9600 baud courier modem. A pricing scheme that rewards fast uploads would be a fantastic way to improve the strength of the internet - everyone would pay more for fast uprate to save money!

Malicious note - here's a chance for movie pirates to use the same guerilla tactics as the industry - poisoning commercial P2P seeds! Inject that 1 frame of shlong and make Tyler Durden proud!

Dubbed movies

[3.14159265]

Well, at least the movies are dubbed. This is a good thing.
Why doesn't music get dubbed as well??
(yes, being ironic...)

Re:Incentive for the user?

[mordors9]

and yet since the grandparent of this post gets a 5 for insightful for obviously not reading the summary and you are still at a 1, it appears the lesson is to just say something and pretend to know what you are talking about.

Re:Dubbed movies

[maxwell demon]

Why doesn't music get dubbed as well??

It does get dubbed, but usually in the same language. The result is called cover version.

Re:Incentive for the user?

[whois_drek]

On the contrary, look at their target audience: you. As a slashdotter, presumably you don't leave your basement more than once or twice a month, so this way, you don't have to go to the store to buy the DVD.