YouTube just jumped with both feet into the streaming movie market, releasing YouTube Movies. What’s interesting is that they allow you to embed these full length movies into your website.
For example, here is the classic “To Kill A Mockingbird“. I think this is really really great, but I’m also pretty surprised that the studio/content owner would be ok with this with their obsession over controlling distribution and piracy in their never ending quest to keep their industry from getting “napster-ed”.
The service has some pretty decent movies, but most seem to be ones “on the fringe”. As a Netflix subscriber, and now looking at YouTube Movies, I am completely stunned at the volume of low grade movies that at face value have no redeeming appeal whatsoever. But I guess the stars have to start somewhere.