Imploding Blockbuster Wants Failing Movielink at Changes Is Good

Imploding Blockbuster Wants Failing Movielink

Published by Siddiq Bello March 2nd, 2007 in Broadband, Foolishness, Movie downloads, blockbuster, business, deals, movie downloading, movielink, netflix.

Better Title: Blockbuster (the also-ran) Contemplates Buying Movielink (the never-was)

The good folks at Ars Technica have an interesting post on Blockbuster’s desire to save its dying business by buying a failed business, Movielink. Movielink is a DRM crippled, online movie service foisted on an uninterested public by the five major movie studios. According to reports in the SJMN and the WSJ the price is less then $50 million and that includes a DNA test to see if you’re Anna Nicole Smiths baby-daddy. The move is your text book MBA, “buy a lemon to save the dinosaur” strategy. To a failing Luddite business this strategy makes a great deal of sense. The rest of the world just yawns.

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