YouTube Inks Film Deal With Sony, Lionsgate, Others
YouTube Inks Film Deal With Sony, Lionsgate, Others
Posted 04/17/2009 at 1:33pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Earlier this week YouTube announced that they’ve finally wrapped up a deal that will allow them to stream a large range of full-length movies and TV shows from Sony, Lionsgate, as well as other television networks and various indie movies.
The movies and episodes will come in a new section of YouTube, as ad-supported (but free) content. Some of the content initially included will be “Casino Royale,” CBS’ new series “Harper’s Island,” and even Morgan Surlock’s popular “Super Size Me.” Though, for the time being Sony’s content will simply be a link that leads users directly to their site, allowing Sony to collect traffic from their own video player.
Sadly, as Google admits, much of the content is at least a decade old. But, for the time being they’re looking towards making baby steps before they can fully compete with Hulu.
Image Credit: Sony Pictures
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brainwins
April 17, 2009 at 5:35pm
I fear that once again, international (read: outside the USA) audiences will be left aside.
Who called the internet the World Wide Web is wrong.
comptech08
April 17, 2009 at 2:00pm
I think google will trump hulu. Or maybe i feel that way cuz google is the best lol. Most of Hulu's movies are a decade old too, so really google doesnt have much ground to make up to compete.
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