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Will you pay to watch a movie on YouTube?

DVD's are going the way of the dodo



Where will you be buying the latest movies a year from now?

Amplify’d from www.ft.com

Google’s YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood’s leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content.

Viewers will stream rather than download the films and pay about $5 for newer titles. The movies would be available at the same time as their release on DVD and on Apple’s iTunes store and Amazon.com, meaning Google could count on recent box-office hits to power the service.

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