Hollywood classics ignored online
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But almost a decade after consumers began legally downloading movies on the Internet, none of those titles is yet available for digital purchase or rental.
While download sites like iTunes and Movielink offer recent releases and scads of library titles, there’s a void when it comes to some of Hollywood’s greatest — “The Wizard of Oz” and “Schindler’s List” among them — and some of its top-earners.
- from Variety