BT Goes Hollywood

BitTorrent.com has made a deal with several Hollywood studios including Fox, Paramount, and WB to distribute their content via torrents for a FEE! TV shows can be downloaded and kept but movies will self destruct a la Mission Impossible after some time. The files are protected by Microsoft and will be unwatchable after 30 days or 24 hours after watching.

Hollywood is just trying to use the BT name to sell their stuff. Will the actual technology be a factor in this? Usually torrent sites require users to maintain a share ratio to allow them to download. Now that people no longer feel the "obligation" to seed the torrents because they paid for this, no one would want to upload the content.

Will this actually make people use this service and increase revenue for studios and decrease piracy or will it only put a spotlight on torrents and make countless number of people still using limewire Google for torrent sites.

Just seems like Napster all over again.