J’ai glissé un mot sur la fermeture de Stage6 il y a deux semaines. J’y faisais part de mon doute quant à la réelle raison de la fermeture du site web opéré par DivX. J’étais loin d’être à côté de la « track ».

“Potential copyright litigation” was one of management’s top considerations leading up to the shuttering of Stage6, Dan Halvorson, DivX’s chief financial officer, said during a conference call to announce the public company’s fourth-quarter earnings. There was reason for concern. Turns out DivX, a maker of Internet-video technologies, had lost a bid to avoid fighting costly copyright suits just a few weeks before Stage6 was closed, records show.

Voici l’article paru hier sur c|net.

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