Fox has announced that it will be the first major studio to have extensive price cuts on its HD movie catalog by discounting 22 of its best selling Blu-ray titles.
The price cut, which began yesterday, will see those 22 select films drop in MSRP by $10 USD each from $39.98 to $29.98 USD. However, the titles have been available for some time now on Amazon and other retailers for much less than the MSRP and usually retail for $19.95 USD.
The complete list, courtesy of HighDefDigest are:’28 Days Later,’ ‘Behind Enemy Lines,’ ‘Broken Arrow,’ ‘Cast Away,’ ‘Chain Reaction,’ ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ ‘Edward Scissorhands,’ ‘Flight of the Phoenix (2004),’ ‘The Fly (1986),’ ‘From Hell,’ ‘Entrapment,’ ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Kiss of the Dragon,’ ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,’ ‘Men of Honor,’ ‘The Omen (2006),’ ‘Planet of the Apes (2001),’ ‘Rising Sun,’ ‘The Sentinel (2006),’ ‘Speed,’ ‘The Transporter’ and ‘Transporter 2.’
Although the price drop is not for all of Fox’s titles, its good to see any price drops at all and heres hoping for more to come.
Result for: entrapment
The Vänsterpartiet, translated to the Left Party of Sweden, held its annual congress last weekend and passed a motion that will legalize the online sharing of copyright material.
During the debate on whether to pass the measure, the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was cited as why current copyright legislation is outdated.
“The farce that is the ongoing legal procedures against The Pirate Bay also shows how legal security is in risk of being compromised by those trying to enforce the current ban on file sharing.”
Members continued on, “To many of us in the Left Party, file sharing is something positive in the same obvious way that public libraries are.”
Additionally, the measure asks for the end of “big brother” tactics such as surveillance, entrapment and lawsuits for alleged pirates.
The party only holds 22 seats in the Swedish parliament currently but hopefully this measure will see the light with the other political parties in Sweden.
