And it’s about time, I say…since, of course, no-one would actually want to be seen in public renting the movie (although, based on its box office take, it should be on shelves by, say, next Tuesday).
No, but, seriously, folks, the studios have finally offered up a solution to those people who say, “Gosh, I’d love to see that film…but the mail box is SO far away, making Netflix an unwieldy proposition at best!” Starting this week, consumers will be able to buy digital versions of films online. No, you can’t burn them onto a disc…though surely some top-notch hacker will figure out a way around that before the weekend…but you can watch them indefinitely in your computer.
I guess this is intended as a way of thwarting those guys who use their handheld cameras to make blurry, off-center bootlegs that they upload to the internet, but, really, how many people who download those versions don’t end up going to rent or buy the legal version when it finally emerges? Or am I just viewing this in my usual naive fashion because I’m probably more of a film purist than Joe Sixpack…?
