YouTube has contacted many major studios and formed a business partnership to license the film in his new service that will come. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate and Universal agreed to give licenses on YouTube.
But other studios such as Paramount, Fox and Disney refused to license. A spokesman for YouTube said, "We are steadily adding more movie titles since the launch of a rented movie on YouTube a year ago. Now, thousands of titles already available."
This triggered speculation, YouTube began providing this new service at the beginning of this week or next. Some sources on the internet speculating, this new service will cost U.S. $ 2.99 (Rp25.000) per rental.
Meanwhile, Netflix reported impressive first quarter earnings. "We are very pleased to have an additional 3.3 million domestic customers in the first quarter. This amount is doubled compared to the first quarter of 2010," said Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. [mor]
