Warner Brothers to use a legal peer-to-peer, computer file-sharing network

Warner Brothers is to start selling films and TV shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland using a legal peer-to-peer, computer file-sharing network, developed by German technology firm Arvato, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. Called In2Movies, the service launches in March. In Germany during the first half of 2005 in Germany, 1.7 million internet users illegally downloaded 11.9 million films.