Watch Ghostbusters free this week on YouTube!
Posted on 14 August 2009, at 8:30 am, by Michael Anderson
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the film, Sony and Youtube are teaming up to stream the classic movie for free! The film shows in High Quality in Sony’s Crackle player embedded on the site. The movie released on August 13th at 9PM EST and is supposedly available for a week.
If you have never seen this film, well … you are dead to me ( 
). If it has been a while, or even not so long, there is never a bad time to re-watch a comedy classic!
Direct link to the High Quality movie online at YouTube
Before you get all teary eyed about the altruism and commitment to the preservation of great art, check this out (emphasis mine):
The showing, which will appear in a 16×9 aspect ratio at “high quality” resolution (as opposed to YouTube’s league-leading jumbo HD player) will feature seven or eight in-stream commercials. The revenue will be shared between partners Sony and YouTube, with the studio taking the majority of the proceeds.
Whew … I was getting worried about Sony for a second there …
Source: LATimes Blog
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August 14th, 2009 at 9:59 am
…unless you are in Canada, then it won’t work… apparently we don’t have ghosts that need busting. I own the movie, but georetarding like this makes me want to pirate it out of spite.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Wow … I also heard that Ireland is blocking this. That really is lousy!