Hollywood's digital graduation

Click's editor Richard Taylor investigates how Hollywood is beginning to change the way it distributes and allows people to watch its films.

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Film studios are beginning to embrace digital delivery
Two years ago Click reported on Hollywood's struggle to beat illegal downloaders.

At the time its primary impulse was to aggressively pursue the offenders inhabiting the so-called "darknet", the internet underground.

But the studios' will to sell and distribute its content digitally over the internet appeared to be half-hearted at best.

There were a few American-based sites offering poor-value packages which restricted how you could transfer the content, but that was about it.

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