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BUSINESS BLOGS
category: business
12 Mar 2008
related tags: Piracy | Video | Social Networking | Financing | DivX |

The flight to quality you are seeing in the video space (note the excitement and bullishness over Hulu) is a result of many things.

For one, advertisers have totally rejected the premise that they will embrace UGC, or user-generated content.

Second, UGC is half of the equation, with UGC comes pirated content, too (or user-appropriated content).

And clearly when you see copyright violation, you think of lawsuits.

Apprently, that is why DivX canned Stage 6… or maybe that is what the company is now saying despite offers to take Stage 6 public or sell it to Brad Greenspan’s Live Universe entity.  Greenspan bought Revver last year, combined to his LiveVideo site, his exposure to UGC seems high enough as it is… but his track record suggests that he knows what he’s doing, I presume. 

Read on.