After years of knocking on Hollywood's door, DivX finally got an answer from Sony Pictures. Although DivX is generally considered to be the highest quality way to encode video online, is broadly used online and has been installed on over 100 million electronics devices, like DVD players and computers? most studios have thus far resisted partnering because its software is very widely used for piracy; Sony Pictures is the first to change course, signing a deal that lets online retailers offer downloads of the studio's films and skeins using DivX encoding and digital rights management. (Variety)