Warner Brothers signs with BitTorrent for P2P content distribution

Posted May 9, 2006 at 10:17 PM by Doug Berger

Section: Tech News, Web, Downloads, Websites, Online Music/Video, Home Audio

After years of illegally distributing music and video content, BitTorrent has gone legal.  You may remember back in March when BitTorrent came to an agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America.  More recently, Warner Brothers has signed a deal with BitTorrent in an effort to distribute large movie and television files over the net.  By using BitTorrent’s technology, Warner will be able to avoid excessive bandwidth costs/issues related to sharing these files.  They haven’t yet announced if the video files will have DRM, so we’re going to have to wait to hear about that.

The service, which is headed for launch early this summer, will make available over 200 Warner Brothers titles for download via BitTorrent.com.  Included are such films as Harry Potter, and TV shows like Babylon 5.  Prices are not yet set, but BitTorrent is expecting TV shows to run about $1 per episode, and movies to cost around the same as DVDs.

Check out more of Gadgetell’s coverage of BitTorrent.

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