Streaming movies is preferred by the MPAA. In the long run consumers will actually be the losers in the streaming wars. The MPAA hopes consumers will move to streaming videos rather than adding them to their personal DVD collections. When streaming is perfected you will pay for a movie and be limited how many times you can view it before the software will render the movie useless. Another type of control is to limit viewing to a specified time limit before the movie is rendered useless. The motion picture studios are able to increase their revenues by streaming the movie a number of times to each consumer rather than selling you a disc only once.
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