Online Movie Renting: 0.60 USD!

ARS Technica reports that to fight piracy in China, one of the Hollywood majors will offer online movie renting starting at 60 cents! This is the new step in the battle launched by Hollywood Majors to fight movie piracy in this country. It comes after the launch of movie DVDs for 3 USD. The new offer by Warner is VOD renting system, starting at 0.6 till 1.03 USD per download.
In other words, while we are paying premium prices to allow Hollywood majors to report profits, the same companies are applying completely different price policies in emerging countries as China. Instead of directly dealing with the local government to make their copyright better protected they launch aggressive offer which would be successful in developed countries. In other words, to get the best deal as a customer, you better live in non-democratic countries, otherwise you will have to pay premium price…