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The key difference here being that they're not uploaded from dodgy DVD copies then taken down again 10 minutes later. The internet video giant has teamed up with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to officially release a selection of the company's back catalogue.
The result will be a video-on-demand channel called Impact that will feature action films and TV shows, as well as clips from some of MGM's other movies.
The films will be free to download, but include adverts. MGM is planning to try and maximise the revenue of their older and more obscure titles with Impact - the films on show include Bulletproof Monk (deeply stupid but quite entertaining martial arts frippery with Chow Yun-Fat and Stifler out of American Pie beating up Nazis) and Lone Wolfe McQuade (no idea), as well as the mighty works of everyone's favourite internet in-joke, Chuck Norris. The better-known movies - The Magnificent Seven, Legally Blonde, Rocky, Ronin - will only feature as clips. Also, any licenses that are making plenty of money as it is (read: that Bond fellow) will be conspicuous by their absence.
"It's safe to say you won't see those blockbuster theatricals shortly after their release or after their TV window," said Jim Packer, co-president of MGM Worldwide Television. "There are plenty of other films we would like to expose."
Impact is currently only confirmed for the U.S., but will likely go worldwide soon after. MGM are planning a number of other similar themed channels within the next 18 months.
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