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Movie rentals are a step closer. Says WSJ:

In an effort to jump-start the market for online movies, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox and Apple Inc. are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple’s iTunes Store, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is good. To buy movies is not as interesting as buying and owning music. Not many movies I watch twice, I can say that.

What’s also interesting in the article (you need a subscription to read that part) is that Fox will start including an iPod version of the movie with DVDs they sell. They will use Apple’s FairPlay DRM to encode the files.

Update: Sony, Paramount and Warner Brothers are also said to be joining.