According to the news, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has signed a deal with BitTorrent, a very popular website for the illegal sharing of music and video content. The download service will offer DVD-quality movies and consumers will be able to download the content using BitTorrent’s peer-assisted “file-swarming” technology. Warner Bros will use BitTorrent to transfer movies, which will become available online the same day as they are released on DVD, in a move to reduce lost revenues caused by illegal videos, DVDs and Internet downloads.

BitTorrent will provide the first peer- assisted technology platform to offer legal content on both a VOD and an electronic sell-through (EST) basis.

The service is scheduled to be launched this summer, and will initially feature Warner Bros.’s library titles and TV series, including “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” “Dukes of Hazzard,” “North Country,” “Rumor Has It,” “The Matrix,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Natural Born Killers,” “National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation,” “Babylon 5,” and “Dukes of Hazzard.”

According to the news, Walt Disney Co. began selling movies using the CinemaNow Inc. download service, to reach consumers who use portable devices and computers to view movies and TV. Disney movies will be available through CinemaNow on the same day as the DVD home-video release, including movies like Chicken Little, Pirates of the Caribbean, Glory Road on June 6 and Eight Below on June 20, from $9.95 to $19.95.

CinemaNow began offering movies from Sony Corp., Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. last month, while its rival Movielink LLC began selling movies from Sony, MGM, Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox, General Electric Co.’s Universal Pictures and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros.

According to the news, pirate DVDs of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ are already on sale in China, only days after the controversial movie’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. While the pirate DVDs quality is reportedly so poor that people were forced to stop watching at halfway, the movie has enjoyed one of the biggest opening weekends in film box office history - $250 million worldwide.

Although many church leaders have called for ‘The Da Vinci Code’ to be banned, the movie - which is based on the best selling novel by Dan Brown - caught a lot of attention.