Warner will allow downloads of films and TV shows

Hollywood (SF) - The company Warner Bros. will be the first to use Internet to distribute its movies and TV series using the technology of BitTorrent Inc., which developed a popular tool used to download and share pirate copies of box office films.

Warner will try to use the massive use of the tool and the speed it has to spread hit movies, that are not available even on DVD. The two companies said that by next summer the system will be working, but didn't mention standard prices of the products, although they said some TV shows could cost 1 dollar and movies will cost as much as a DVD.

The president of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, Kevin Tsujihara, said: "If we can convert 5, 10, 15 percent of the peer-to-peer users that have been obtaining our product from illegitimate sources to becoming legitimate buyers of our product, that has the potential of a huge impact on our industry and our economics."

BitTorrent Inc. will remove all the illegal copies of movies and TV shows from the Internet and the links to other sites that allow piracy. Warner Bros. meanwhile, will sell films and TV series that can be burnt onto a backup CD, but they can only be played again on the computer used to download the content.