IMPORTANT NOTICE! Stage6 Shutting Down
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Written by Canuck   
Monday, 25 February 2008
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Bad news, Stage6 is closing its doors. Most of the movies at Gamerztheatre are hosted through Stage6. 

 If you have a movie hosted at some other video hosting site could you please provide the url in the forums . This way I can change the server info without losing any of the hit counts, ratings or comments.

 If you don't have movies hosted anywhere, it would be very helpful if you could download a few of the movies here and upload them to Veoh.com or my ftp. Please post in the forums which movies you are downloading and want to upload so we don't get duplications.

Fortunately I have many of the movies here already on my ftp, so many of the best high quality streaming will continue to be streamed here.

Thank you

 Canuck

 

 

For security cameras, usually the regular digital cameras are sided. The nikon digital camera is just to classily to stick on a wall, and so is an olympus digital camera.

 

 

some detailed info from the comments on the closing message:
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Hey Guys, u wanna know whats really going on? Here we go:

DivX (DIVX) took a step closer to being forced to walk the plank after suffering their first legal setback in their copyright dispute with Universal Music Group. In a legal filing published late Tuesday night, Judge Dana Sabraw dismissed DivX’s request to declare Stage6 legal, ahead of their UMG piracy trial.

The dispute originally started in December 2006, when UMG notified DivX that several of their videos were showing up on their Stage6 website. In the original cease and desist letter, UMG didn’t provide DivX with a list of the infringing videos, but still demanded that DivX remove all Universal content. A month later, UMG sent a second letter, only this time identifying specific videos that they had problems with. DivX promptly removed the videos in question and didn’t hear from UMG’s legal department for another 8 months.

After this 8 month period of awkward silence, UMG approached DivX and agreed to license their content, albeit at a very steep cost. In order to atone for their past sins, UMG wanted DivX to pay them $30 million.

Sensing a shakedown, DivX balked at the deal and decided to take their chances in court. They had fully complied with all of the provisions of the DMCA and if UMG wanted to punish them, they’d need to attack the DMCA’s safe harbor provision to do it. After calling their bluff, UMG dragged their heels on filing a lawsuit, but the potential threat for conflict still created a real problem for DivX. With the company trying to spin off their Stage6 asset, these storm clouds of uncertainty cast a long shadow over the legality of their Stage6 operations.

With UMG threatening legal action against the site, DivX was forced to choose between trying to sell the asset at a discount or trying to see if they could ride this storm out. With UMG seemingly content to continue to accrue alleged damages, DivX felt compelled to ask the courts to rule on whether or not Stage6 was protected under the safe harbor provision.

DivX took a huge risk by pushing this issue. If they are right, then their wager will certainly pay off. If the courts can establish the legality of their Stage6 website, it would remove a lot of the uncertainty surrounding the business and would allow potential suitors to feel more comfortable about its long term potential. If DivX is wrong though, the consequences could be severe.

Six weeks after DivX filed for declaratory relief, UMG finally made good on their threat and filed a lawsuit against DivX accusing them of piracy. By bringing DivX up on charges, they were able to successfully argue that their trial was a more appropriate venue for this question to be answered. While this does represent a setback for DivX, I doubt that the result was entirely unexpected.

Still, through legal maneuvering, UMG has been able to regain control over home court advantage and they’ve put themselves into a position where they can always settle or walk away if things start to look bad. Even if DivX sticks with the full court press, they may not end up with the declarations that they were hoping for. In the discussion section of the judgment, Sabraw sympathized with DivX, but couldn’t justify running a separate trial now that DivX is facing legal action.

Defendants argue declaratory judgment is an incomplete remedy since this action does not include all parties to the lawsuit pending in the Central District. Furthermore, since Plaintiff cannot identify all copyrights at issue, Defendants argue the remedy in this Court is limited to adjudicating only the copyrights named.
The Court agrees with Defendants. Although the fear of uncertain litigation may have initially justified Plaintiff in filing this action, Defendants have since filed a lawsuit in the Central District that eliminates the uncertainty. Moreover, the DCMA [sic] safe harbor analysis Plaintiff seeks here will be more completely and efficiently undertaken in the Central District, where the court will be able to determine Plaintiff’s compliance with respect to p...
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psychomyst   |2008-02-25 16:47:29
avatar wow, this is going to be a rather large venture for you CC, I'm not a great HTML person - but if it's a rather repetitive task and you need the help, please let me know.
Canuck   |2008-02-25 17:17:40
avatar No html needed, I just need help to get all the movies downloaded I don't have. You can either upload them to my ftp or Veoh.com

My MSN is canoe36@hotmail.com if you can help please contact me there.

thanks
Smiley_ie   |2008-02-26 06:47:15
Canuck if you need any of my stuff let me no.
Cheers
Canuck   |2008-02-26 20:04:51
avatar looks like I only need update #2

Thanks
Joe90     |2008-02-27 06:12:55
avatar Oh, that sucks. Oh well, I guess we can't complain for what was a beta and free service. How good is veoh, Canuck?

What do you need from me? I've got a lot of titles linked to gamerztheatre from flightsimmachinima.com - just let me know what you need and I'll get on it. Will you be keeping the same links or will I have to chege all thos on my site as well?

Good luck!
Canuck   |2008-02-27 07:30:48
avatar Hi Joe90,
I already have most if not all the flight sim movies on my ftp, so I will still be streaming the high quality divx and wmv versions.
Also, all the links will remain the same. I will just need to time to change the server info for each movie.
Thanks for the offer to help, if I need something I will definitely let you know.


Canuck
Gas  - Stage 6 ... Stage 7   |2008-02-29 08:54:08
avatar Stage7.com is up and running.http://stage7.ning.com

Formed by the users of Stage 6 but not in any way affiliated to them. They are only a few days old so will need time to get a balance to their website.

I already like the up loader system they have as it seems to be fast and simple to use.

http://stage7.ning.com
Just today the introduced .divx streaming, but again they will need time to get the system streamlined and working properly.

We are keeping our eyes open on these developments.

Gas
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