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YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers'

Sunday November 18, 2018. 04:15 PM , from Slashdot
YouTube's 'Movies & Shows' page added a 'Free to Watch' section last month. They're trying to compete with free ad-supported online movie offerings from Roku, Walmart, and Tubi, while 'Amazon is rumored to be working on something similar,' reports TechCrunch:

Before, YouTube had only offered consumers the ability to purchase movies and TV shows, similar to how you can rent or buy content from Apple's iTunes or Amazon Video.... Currently, YouTube is serving ads on these free movies, but the report said the company is open to working out other deals with advertisers -- like sponsorships or exclusive screenings. YouTube's advantage in this space, compared with some others, is its sizable user base of 1.9 billion monthly active users and its ability to target ads using data from Google.

The 99 free movies include the first five Rocky movies, and four movies in the Pink Panther series (all from the post-Peter Sellers era, including the forgotten 1993 film in which the title theme is sung by Bobby McFerrin), as well as Pauly Shore's dreadful 1996 comedy Bio-Dome (which received a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes). Also available is James Cameron's original 1984 film The Terminator, the 2010 documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story and the 1995 film 'Hackers' starring Angelina Jolie.
'In this cyberpunk thriller, a renegade group of elite teenage computer hackers rollerblade through New York City by day and ride the information highway by night. After hacking into a high-stakes industrial conspiracy, they become prime suspects and must recruit the best of the cybernet underground to help clear their names.'

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