Warner Bros. has partnered with BitTorrent and will sell movies and television shows over the internet.

BitTorrent's software is currently used to download movies and TV shows illegally. The service will launch this summer and is expected to sell TV shows for around $1 and full-length movies for the price of a DVD or video rental, the New York Times reported.

Initial offerings will include movies like "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Rumor Has It" and "Natural Born Killers." The television shows will include older program like "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Babylon 5."

Warner Bros. says the legal downloading service might help to curtail the illegal pirating of movies on the internet by offering consumers a fast and simple way to download movies.

"We've come to a point where you have sufficient consumer demand and we have the technology that is now mature enough," Jim Wuthrich, senior vice president, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, told Reuters.

To further combat copying and distributing downloaded files the service will require passwords before watching a file and another that only allows the file to view on the computer it was downloaded.