Apple, Fox Ink Movie Download Deal

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LOS ANGELES Apple and Fox have struck a deal for downloadable movie rentals, according to a report published Thursday in the Financial Times, while giant retailer Wal-Mart has discontinued its movie-download service.

The shake-up in the nascent industry of feature films and TV shows delivered via the Internet comes in the eighth month of a writers’ strike in which one of the primary goals of the Writers Guild of America is to negotiate a bigger cut of new-media revenue.

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