MEMORY STICK MAKER PNY has come up with a cunning plan to help flog more of its rapidly-aging 2GB USB key stock, by teaming up with Sony to pre-load it with the classic movie Ghostbusters.

A few other movies have been pre-loaded on to removable media before – mainly on SD cards and bundled with mobile phones – but this is apparently the first time a full-length studio movie has been (legally) sold on a USB drive.

At first glance this seems like a great idea, the 1984 blockbuster is a brilliant movie and having an extra 2GB of storage dangling on your keyring is always useful.

But then, in a move reminiscent of the PSPs UMD movie range, someone decided to DRM it to the eyeballs and try and charge £30 for the thing. Suddenly the idea loses some of its sparkle.

The DRM system thoughtfully allows you to copy the movie to your computer, but you still have to have the USB key stuck in as the DRM key is built into the drive.

According to PNY, even with the movie on there, there is still enough spare capacity for 1,080 images, or 12 hours of MP4 video or 33 hours worth of MP3s.

Perhaps this is meant to be for all those new kneetop owners who now have nice portable computers with no optical drives in them. Still, at £30 a pop, we can imagine its going to be taking off in a hurry.

If you're still interested you can pick up the gizmo at Argos.

Alternatively you can get Ghostbusters 1 & 2: The Special Editions on DVD for £8.99 and a 2GB USB stick for £5.49 on Play.com and save yourself around half the cash, get the second movie and have a usable memory stick to boot.

Who you gonna call?

Not PNY, that's for sure. µ