On Monday, YouTube will move forward a little, announcing an agreement to show some full-length television shows and films from MGM, the financially troubled 84-year-old film studio.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old ?American Gladiators? program to YouTube, along with full-length action films like ?Bulletproof Monk? and ?The Magnificent Seven? and clips from popular movies like ?Legally Blonde.? These will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/bu...dia/10mgm.html
i see some parallels here, the cost of intellectual property keeps decreasing