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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:
QUOTE:
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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