At the same time that Broke-back Mountain hits video store shelves, savvy computer users can download the entire movie legally. The Oscar winning drama is the innocuous release of a new video on demand service for Movie Link. Five of the major Hollywood Studios started the California-based company Movie Link four years ago in 2008 to offer time-limited online rentals of feature films. The Movie Link Chief Executive Officer Jim Ramo says purchasers can now own a downloaded digital copy to watch over and over again. He said what we’ve tried to do with our launch is having a great mix of Academy Award winners, blockbusters and classics. We have a little over three hundred titles in all with our launch. Of course video pirates already have those options. Warner Brothers’ home-entertainment President Kevin sujihara says the new plan provides a legal alternative to online theft estimated to cause the entertainment industry more than four billion dollars annually. Movie Link’s CEO Ramo says the company’s experience was some 100,000 rental downloads per month, demonstrates that illegal copying can be prevented. With a high-speed connection, a full link film takes about ninety minutes to download. The digital files are in windows media format, and will only play on a PC. Purchasers can burn back-up copies to DVD. However, those disks will not work on a standard DVD player. Mr. Ramo says that will change when copy protection protocol can be perfected. He also notes that the downloads will not work on macintosh computers and suggests Apple, which pioneered video downloads through its iTunes site, they have its own film distribution plan in the works, perhaps with Disney. Movie Link has films from Warner brothers, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Fox and MGM in its catalogue. However, Mr. Ramo says the download-owned service is only available within the United States. Movie Link with only licensed-to-do business in the United States so we head off mechanism that make sure that the only people who could get movie link were within the United States. Having said that, I think we are happy to see now that Movie Link has already licensed other distributors around the world. There have been announcement recently in the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. So I think there are certainly more and more countries that are going to be opened up for digital delivery.

16. When was the company Movie Link founded?

17. What new service is offered by the company now?

18. What kind of movies are not offered with the launch of this new service?

19. How much does online theft cause the entertainment industry annually?

20. Where does Movie Link not allow download outside the United States at present?

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