New methods eyed for buying movies

pr0digal jenius · Mar 14, 2005, 07:14 PM

Want to get rid of that old DVD box set of "The Best of Barnaby Jones?" Peerflix has the site for you.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has created a site at which consumers can trade their old DVDs with one another legally, thereby reducing their entertainment budgets and clearing out clutter. Selling a used DVD outright can be legally iffy, as it gets into complex copyright issues, but Peerflix offers a way around the sticky legalities.

Peerflix is one of a number of outfits determined to change the way consumers get their movies. Inspired in part by the success of rent-by-mail pioneer Netflix, a crowd of innovators is stepping forward to prove there is still lots of fat that can be trimmed from the system. Besides offering movies for less, many of these companies hope to exploit the blandness of cable outlets by linking up with producers whose movies, for whatever reason, never clicked with the public at large, but which may still appeal to aficionados of particular niches.
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Mar 14, 2005, 07:14 PM	#1
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	New methods eyed for buying movies Want to get rid of that old DVD box set of "The Best of Barnaby Jones?" Peerflix has the site for you. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has created a site at which consumers can trade their old DVDs with one another legally, thereby reducing their entertainment budgets and clearing out clutter. Selling a used DVD outright can be legally iffy, as it gets into complex copyright issues, but Peerflix offers a way around the sticky legalities. Peerflix is one of a number of outfits determined to change the way consumers get their movies. Inspired in part by the success of rent-by-mail pioneer Netflix, a crowd of innovators is stepping forward to prove there is still lots of fat that can be trimmed from the system. Besides offering movies for less, many of these companies hope to exploit the blandness of cable outlets by linking up with producers whose movies, for whatever reason, never clicked with the public at large, but which may still appeal to aficionados of particular niches. ________________ Source/Read More: C\|Net