Freeman Bringing Films to Net ( Wired News / Katie Dean )

From the article: “Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is teaming up with Intel to launch an online movie-download site that aims to pull users away from illegal downloads of first-run films.

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“We’re going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that’s to get ahead of the whole piracy thing,” Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley after making his presentation, which was closed to the press.”

Apparently Morgan Freeman has been busy setting up ClickStar, a company which aims to make new release movies available for download while they are still showing at the cinema. He wants to make it easier to buy a download of the movie than to pirate one. I think the determining factor on whether this will work or not is how much the movie will cost relative to the quality of the video.