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Some of Warner Bros films will be accessible on Facebook which creates a new revenue source for the large social network and creates a new competition line for popular streaming companies.

To watch a movie people should pay for them using Facebook Credits, a virtual currency used mainly in social games on the website. 30% of the revenue gained by Facebook comes from sales by third parties via Credits system.

The service will initially be available in the United States, the company said.

In its effort to calculate direct loss from piracy taking into account economic multipliers AFACT approached for help to Oxford Economics and Ipsos MediaCT.

Thus, the results of the study released by AFACT (the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft), the multipliers mean that piracy sucks $A1.37 billion out of the Australian economy.

Direct effects made up $A575 million, the study claims, including $A225 million attributed to “secondary piracy”, in which an individual either “views or borrows” pirated material.

As reported by the Financial Times, YouTube video-sharing website is accelerating its negotiations with Hollywood movie makers over a global pay-as-you-go video service that could be launched by the end of the year.

According to the sources familiar with the matter the new service will likely be first launched in the United States, followed by other countries over time.

Google and YouTube "talked about how many people they could steer to this ... it's a huge number," the newspaper quoted an executive with knowledge of the plans as saying.

As 3-D content is gaining more popularity among consumers computer makers such as MSI and Asus have developed 3-D enabled PCs which they are planning to show at the Computex trade show to be held in Taipei, Taiwan from June 1 to 5.

MSI will introduce a 24-inch 3-D net-top: a desktop computer with its internals built into the display case like in iMac.

MindSign Neuromarketing, a San Diego firm, is dreaming to usher in the age of “neurocinema,” the real-time monitoring of the brain’s reaction to movies, using ever-improving fMRI technology, says Scott Brown on the Wired Magazine.