A couple of days ago Boxee has announced they will be bringing paid content to their media center software. For those of you who dont know Boxee: Boxee is a fork of the popular XBMC media center software and is capable of playing all sorts of media when installed on a computer or HTPC. Compared the XBMC Boxee features some custom and proprietary additions and is more focused on social and online media.

The idea is that Boxee users will have the ability to buy content like TV shows and movies with a click of the remote. Content owners will be able to package and price as they wish, including pay-per-view and subscription. This could be a great step forward towards paid content as a countermeasure for piracy. I would love to see this in XBMC as well although I doubt this is gonna happen.

Read more about these plans on the Boxee Blog.