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Peerflix Launches P2P DVD Sharing Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-cat dept.

Dotnaught writes "Peerflix has offically launched, ending a 12 month beta test. The company manages the peer-to-peer trading of physical DVDs (with CDs and videogames coming soon) by mail. As the article in InformationWeek suggests, while such trades may be legal under the first-sale doctrine of U.S. Copyright Act, content owners won't be pleased -- discs are easy to copy and there's ample precedent to suggest users will dupe discs before trading them."

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  1. Re:as opposed to the NetFlix project? by ghstomahawks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    exactly ... but it happens anyway. The real genius is a company finding a way to make money off of illegal scheming of peoples. Rock on!

  2. Fighting The Waves by JordanL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How would any media corporation of any kind fight something like this on any principal but that they think all their users are lying, cheating bastards?

    And even then... would companied like Paramount have to sue themselves for owning something like Blockbuster?

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