Unlike other studios backing the MPAA in their bizarre and counter-productive lawsuit/legislation based attack on piracy, Warner Brothers has actually decided to innovate, and use technology to benefit their consumers. That's right, Warner Brothers is going to start allowing people to legitimately torrent their movies. If they include the ability to burn to DVD at home the business model will be perfect (not everybody wants to watch movies on a computer screen or has a HDTV capable of receiving digital signal).

It's kind of striking how stupid the major music and movie companies have been. Here they have this great wave of technology that allows direct access to consumers over their computers without middlemen or CD/DVD production in their way, and they don't see it as an opportunity. There even exists excellent models of distribution that could be replicated, like eMusic or iTunes for legitimate distribution of their product, and they still refuse to innovate. Instead, they dig in behind their outdated business model and 10-15 year old technologies and sue, sue, sue. Or convince Orrin Hatch that computers should be made to self-destruct when someone allegedly pirates their material (oh what a minefield of stupidity that was).

Hooray for Warner Brothers. Finally someone is catching on.