‘3 Idiots’ Movie to Be Available On YouTube: Google Gets Into Pay-Per-Download Business
In a move that will surprise many, the producer of the Bollywood movie ‘3 Idiots’ has announced that, the movie will be legally available on YouTube within 12 weeks of its release.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra – the producer of the movie, hopes this will help in countering piracy. “I’m providing this facility for those who can’t see it on big screen and watch pirated movies. I just want them to discourage pirated prints. They just need to wait for 12 weeks and after that they can legally download the movie and watch it,” said Chopra.
Viewers will also be able to download the entire film from YouTube for a certain fee. Although the amount hasn’t been disclosed yet, this is probably the first time where YouTube would be legally allowing video downloads. ‘3 Idiots’ will signal Google’s entry into the pay-per-download business.
Indian film-makers have been trying various avenues in a bid to tackle rampant piracy. Earlier this year, movies like ‘Kaminey’ and ‘What’s Your Raashee’ premiered on DTH (direct to home) services, within a month of their theatrical releases. In a sense, Vidhu Vinod Chopra isn’t doing anything radical. But, with a low broadband penetration it will be interesting to see how profitable this experiment will turn out to be.
Omkar Dutta
December 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm #
Just watched the paid preview of this movie… Simply awesome. I will definitely download this movie legally from YouTube. Waiting for next 12 weeks :)
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Williams Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 6:54 am
Wow, Omkar. what is the url which you watched?
Can you share here
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abhishek Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:56 am
I heard of this previously but not confirmed about launching date.
It’s an another way to earn money for film producers.
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Simran
December 25th, 2009 at 12:53 pm #
I will surely download and watch this movie again :D
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Rishabh Agarwal
December 31st, 2009 at 11:56 am #
The movie rocks! It defeated Avatar’s collections in India
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Malhar Parve
December 31st, 2009 at 2:51 pm #
This movie is really good. I want to see this movie again an d I am doing what I like…..just Blogging :)
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Gourav
January 4th, 2010 at 1:06 am #
Would it be worth it to pay for a youtube video download, after all the quality can’t be like a DVD on youtube & if it is then one can imagine the file sizes. I’m not very excited about this.
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Pallab De Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 5:10 am
Quite true. With the broadband speeds available in India, most people wouldn’t be able to stream the movie.
As far as download is concerned, YouTube normally stores multiple copies of the file. So, it is possible that you would be able to chose how large a file you want to download.
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G Web | Google Talk
January 6th, 2010 at 3:58 am #
Hmmm, I think that we’re going to see much more of this pay per download business, but am unsure of how successful this particular effort is going to be with the low penetration of broadband in India. Here in South Africa we suffer from both low penetration and really slow download speeds, with data being very expensive compared to other places in the world, so I don’t think it will be very successful this side, yet.
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Williams
January 15th, 2010 at 12:24 pm #
This movie really rocks. But i think watching this from youtube is some negative for people who have slow internet connection.
I love this movie. I watched really 3 times, but i want to see again in youtube. Waiting for 3 weeks.
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Suhas
January 16th, 2010 at 5:56 am #
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Suhas Reply:
January 16th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Your quote thing is not working I suppose.
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sajid
March 18th, 2010 at 12:39 pm #
this is also good movie to in the cienima , if someone wants to see same as their home the result would be different , it is my opinion, sajid, pakistan
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sherwin
April 11th, 2010 at 6:59 am #
it is a fantastic movie i have ever seen in my life
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Sarsij
April 15th, 2010 at 6:56 am #
Now, its more than 12 weeks, so whats the status? Is this movie released on YouTube?
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Manu Manjunath
May 18th, 2010 at 4:08 am #
“They just need to wait for 12 weeks”
I still don’t see it on YouTube.
Are they planning not to release it or they just postponed it by another 12 weeks :-P
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Blog Reply:
June 19th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Can’t wait to see this movie! i must look on youtube for this!
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nadee
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:03 pm #
he he three ediot s is very nice film
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kanishka
June 28th, 2010 at 8:35 am #
itis fantastic i wanna download it
but m not getin any options 4 it
plzz help :(
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chetanya kalra
July 5th, 2010 at 3:25 pm #
awesome movie..
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shamit
July 18th, 2010 at 7:30 pm #
News Report fail! Hasn’t come out on youtube yet
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gavin
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 am #
lovely movie
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gavin
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:09 am #
best movie ever seen
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Sunil
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:36 am #
Amazing ….
Gr8 …
I think dis is d right way to stop piracy…
VVC (producer )
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nimme
July 31st, 2010 at 9:05 am #
muje mail kar d appna mobile namber…………
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