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Netflix Plans To Deliver Films Via Web In 2005

Netflix Plans To Deliver Films Via Web In 2005

KingFish 26 Apr, 2004 at 8:54pm ET Article published in Tech

Movie rental service Netflix plans to do next year what its name has always promised: deliver a movie via the Internet.

“Our strategy is to get huge in DVDs and then expand into downloads,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told Reuters Friday. “When we get to 5 million or 10 million subscribers, eventually what we spend on postage becomes a prize for the movie studios.”

Source: USA Today

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Comments

  1. FormFactor
    26 Apr 2004 ~ 10:18pm FormFactor Kewl!! and DVD John just wrote a nifty little app called DeDRMS ;)
  2. TheSmJ
    27 Apr 2004 ~ 12:49am TheSmJ
    FormFactor wrote:
    Kewl!! and DVD John just wrote a nifty little app called DeDRMS ;)


    What's it do?
  3. topherice
    27 Apr 2004 ~ 1:34am topherice As the name implies it is DE-DRMS. It removes Digital Rights Management and was released under the GNU General Public License.

    Here's a link to the source code: http://www.nanocrew.net/software/DeDRMS/DeDRMS-0.1/DeDRMS.cs

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