Apple Bids for Paid Movie Downloads

Apple Computer may move into the movie business via its popular iTunes Music Store. According to a recent Yahoo! News article, Apple is in negotiations with most of the major Hollywood movie studios, but the two sides do not yet agree on pricing of the downloads. Steve Jobs of Apple wants a flat price of $9.99 per movie download over iTunes, while the movie execs want a more variable price structure.

I want to know just how big these downloadable movie files are expected to be. With the Internet service I have at home, a current movie (Nacho Libre, for example) could be on Turner Movie Classics by the time I'd be able to get it all downloaded.

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