HipMojo.com http://watchmojo.com/web/blog Covering Online Video, Web, Search, Investing, Technology, Strategy, Investing, M&A, Financing, VCs Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Copyright Concerns Canned DivX’s Stage6? http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/copyright-concerns-canned-divxs-stage6/ http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/copyright-concerns-canned-divxs-stage6/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:22:03 +0000 Ashkan Karbasfrooshan DivXFinancingPiracySocial NetworkingVideo http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/copyright-concerns-canned-divxs-stage6/ 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.

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