DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 25, 2008 @09:51AM from the your-users-are-asking-for-ways-to-pay-you dept.

Xelios writes "DivX announced today that it will be shutting down Stage6, its high-quality video sharing site. 'So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day its really as simple as that.' The news comes after the former CEO of DivX stepped down last year to head Stage6, which was to become a separate company, and the still ongoing legal battle with UMG."

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Re:I think I speak for everyone... by ChaosWeevil · 2008-02-25 10:01 · Score: 4, Interesting

I rather disagree. Stage6 was indeed high quality, which was nice, but the plugin required for it was hideous. It caused my browser to crash many, many times, and half the time it didn't work, providing the message "Could not download video file." I'm a rather glad to see it go, if only because I won't have to deal the plugin anymore.