Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment is vying to become the iTunes of the downloadable movie industry. So said Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, at the Digital Hollywood conference earlier this week. “We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs did for music, but for the film industry,” Arrieta said Wednesday. “I’m trying to create the new ‘anti-Napster.'”
Sony Planning Downloadable Movie Push
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire April 1, 2005 11:22 AMSony Pictures Digital Entertainment is vying to become the iTunes of the downloadable movie industry. So said Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, at the Digital Hollywood conference earlier this week. “We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs did for music, but for the film industry,” Arrieta said Wednesday. “I’m trying to create the new ‘anti-Napster.'”