In practice, it becomes more like a friend passing along a DVD to another friend than like making a file available simultaneously to the entire internet.

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For renting a movie, I would rather deliver it through Comcast video on demand or through a DVD to a high-def TV with a fat file.

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That, the company argues, will prevent the ripped DVD files from ending up on Bittorrent or other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.

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Instead, it merely copies the encrypted file and uses the same player technology installed in a typical hardware DVD player to read it.

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The original digital source file of the feature will also come in handy for converting the feature for DVD and television versions down the road, Swartz says.

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