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Aug 30 2010 10:43am EDT

Summer Rental

The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals from their catalogs to YouTube by the end of the year.

Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the plans, the FT claims that the YouTube on-demand video service will probably launch first in the US, and will offer movies, simultaneous with the DVD release, for about $5.

The movies won't be downloadable, so you'll need a live Internet connection to watch them. But the lack of a download capability isn't as big of a deal as you might think at first.

For more on the potential deal for streaming movie rentals on YouTube, read the full report on Ars Technica.


Jon Stokes is a deputy editor for Ars Technica.

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