SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Adult video-on-demand provider SkweezMe.com is reaching out to Sony Pictures in the hope that the studio will allow it to stream The Interview on its online television network, which launched in January.
"SkweezMe.com is seeking the rights to digitally distribute The Interview on our global online platform," said the company in an announcement. "Our streaming service is deployed on one of the largest servers in the world and can be accessed by anyone, anywhere. We firmly believe in freedom of artistic expression and freedom of speech and we will not be bullied into silence on our own soil because of these impeding threats. We will gladly take "The Interview" and stream it online via our rev-share model so Sony can try to recoup its investment, but more importantly, to show the world that we will not have our constitutional rights silenced. For decades pornographers have fought our own government and been the canaries in the first amendment coal mines. Pulling The Interview is the first step in a very slippery slope of censorship and we are willing to step up and offer the movie to prevent American Commerce and Artistic Expression to be silenced by a dictator 6500 miles away."
SkweezMe.com operates a Netflix/iTunes hybrid model that allows users to purchase tokens to its platform for 99 cents. Each token unlocks a 24 hour period during which the user can stream whatever they want to watch, just like with Netflix. There are no recurring monthly memberships; users only pay for the days that they use the service.
"The business model, which was the first of its kind, received lots of skepticism when the company launched the service at the beginning of this year," added SkweezMe. "However, the company has proved it's model to be the wave of the future with reports of growth in sales every month as well as new users every month with a very low retention rate. The platform now hosts content from over 70 different production companies and encompasses 100s of different genres, catering to every type of adult genre a viewer could want."
SkweezMe.com content can be streamed globally via the web, mobile devices, tablets, as well as on its own Roku channel.
