Yes, according to the Register, Time Warner will start distributing movies in Germany using the “peer to peer” tech usually found in dirty, dirty IP pirate software.

Bonus point and “no shit Sherlock” award of the day for this quote from a Time Warner bod: “One of the most effective weapons for defeating online piracy is providing legal, easy-to-use alternatives.”

Not treating your customers as criminals helps too.

On a related note, has anyone tried the Sky Movies Broadband service yet? Basically, if you subscribe to Sky Movies you can then download an watch them on your PC for no extra money. There is some use of DRM but it’s not utterly bonkers. Now if they would just have a mac version… (ha!)