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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."

2 of 183 comments (clear)

  1. Re:as opposed to the NetFlix project? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    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!
    And hence, legalize ca**abis!!!!!

  2. Re:Conversion Rate? by RandomPrecision · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't more Gigli's make it worse?