Voddler

So apparently Bredbandsbolaget's Voddler service is about to show up for real and not just as a publicity stunt. You can register at their website for a chance to become a tester.

Maybe the day has come for a internet-wide (well, within Sweden) film streaming service. While I doubt the first generation is going to be the most intuitive one but they have several years' worth of music streaming services to look at.

I really do want this to work assuming they have a big enough library of movies and are able to distribute fast enough that you're not going to see pirate dvd releases several months before you can actually buy them legally. Price is only one of the issues here, if you can't beat the pirates in time between cinema and dvd release, people will still watch the pirated versions.

Make the movies available in high quality before the pirates and have a reasonable pricing (8$ for one movie, for 25$ you can see it as much as you want forever?) you will beat the pirates hands down. And I wouldn't mind at all, I definitely think the cinema industry needs to compete with something and not just blame piracy for their stagnation.