The website Youtube video sharing is in talks with several studios to rent movies to their users 'streaming', according to a person familiar with the talks.
Closing of the deal would be the first time Youtube charges users for video.
Youtube, owned by the online search giant Google, held discussions on the Internet movie rental with Lions Gate Entertainment, Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony, and Warner Brothers, Time Warner, said the source.
In many cases, the films would be available for rent in exchange for a fee, in a system similar to rental programs online from Apple's iTunes Store, Netflix and Amazon with new movies. Youtube is likely to charge a price of $ 3.99 (approximately EUR 2,79) per film.
Youtube, the first Internet video site in the world, offers free videos and is ad-supported.
Currently, the site provides a series of archival films, television programs and promotional cuts from the three studies named and other partners. "We hope to expand our relationship with movie studios and the selection and the types of videos we offer to our community," said YouTube spokesman Chris Dale.
The page is negotiating with different producers of content in an effort to gather a substantial catalog of video and film professionals, current and archive, which can be converted into cash.
The site, known primarily as a place to find funny videos uploaded by users, from skateboarding dogs to babies who dance, recently began to emphasize their professional pieces.
It is believed that advertisers prefrieren professional work to the user files. Hulu, a video site owned by News Corp, Walt Disney and NBC Universal have been relatively successful in attracting Internet users and advertisers alike offering whole television shows and old movies.
Last month, YouTube announced an agreement with certain subsidiaries of Time Warner, as the television networks CNN and TNT. Since March also has a similar agreement with Walt Disney.
Google is receiving increasing criticism from investors and Wall Street analysts, concerned that the cost of serving millions of videos to users worldwide is costing the company more than it earns from advertising.
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