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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. Amazing, Isn't It? by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 4, Interesting


    The "average user" can't (according to the Windows shills) figure out how to run Linux - but they can figure out how to duplicate a DVD and then share it over a P2P network (according to said "average users" writing for the RIAA and MPAA).

    What's wrong with this picture?

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  2. they already have this service for free by geekoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    they are called 'Libraries'

    check one out some time.

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  3. Re:My own Peerflix experience... by Wanker · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've only had 1 problem so far. I got a copy of Night of the Living Dead that was scrathed to hell.

    You're in luck! This movie is in the Public Domain due to a forgotten copyright renewal back in The Good Old Days when they were still required.

    Download and burn a copy. It's legal. Check around.

    http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living _dead