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YouTube is now in talks with Sony Pictures to acquire rights to many of their full length feature films.  You can now find certain movies from Sony Pictures, like Wild Things on the Sony owned Crackle.com.  This possible deal follows last week’s announcement that Disney would be putting shorts produced by the company on YouTube.

These deals could mean a further pull away from YouTube’s initial model as a user generated video sharing website and could also mean a further crackdown on pirated content that is broadcast on YouTube.  Currently, Sony Picture’s Crackle.com has more than 60 full length movies online and this could bring a boost to the movie content on YouTube.  Although it is more likely that Sony Pictures would probably not permit more than 10 to 20 movies at a time on YouTube.  Also, it is not likely that Sony Pictures would allow YouTube users to embed their movies on other sites.

No deal has yet to be released and neither company has given an official announcement on the status of the negotiations.

Read: [CNET]