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What took IMDb so long to start streaming TV shows, movies, trailers and other clips?  Who knows.  They’ve had nothing new on their site in years.  It’s almost as if they have been locked in the 20th century the past 8 years.  Oh well, I’m just glad they have figured it out.

Will I use their service?  Probably not.  If you take a look through a couple of their selections, you will find out quickly just how much of their media is being streamed from Hulu.  I would rather skip the middle man and use Hulu.  Granted they do have a small selection of media that isn’t from Hulu, but most of the stuff worth watching for me anyway is from there.

I LOVE to hear movements like this though.  The more websites that make streaming legal media, like full movies and TV shows, the more people will see how off-base the movie industry giant, MPAA, is full of shit.  Streaming TV shows and movies from the Internet is in most cases, easier than downloading them through bittorrent, and then watching them.  These websites are giving a viable alternative to piracy, and they are reaping the rewards.  If the MPAA would have learned to do this a long time ago themselves, they could have doubled their profits easily, instead of sticking their heads in the sand and throwing out ceist and decists out like rice at a wedding. Hopefully the music industry (RIAA) learns from this.

I kind of went off on a tangent there, lol.  Anyway, long story short.  Good for them.  IMDb finally added a little web 2.0 to their site streaming popular media. I’m curious as to why they didn’t do this sooner, but I’m just glad they did it. What do you think are going to be their next steps?

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