Serious Drama, And Lots Of Stupidity, Behind Stage6 Shutdown

Istik · Unread post by **Istik** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:47 pm

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/26/se ... -shutdown/

Yesterday San Diego based DivX announced the shutdown of popular video site Stage6, to the surprise and dismay of the siteâ€™s 17.4 million happy monthly visitors (the post on the shutdown has over 5,000 comments).

Thereâ€™s lots of speculation around why DivX is shutting the site down, ranging from piracy issues to the spiraling CDN costs of streaming all that HD content. But what really happened, according to multiple sources, is that a ridiculous battle of egos at the DivX board level caused most of the team to simply quit. DivX, essentially, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Parrot · Unread post by **Parrot** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:20 pm

I am one of the loyal user's who will be hurt by their departure..

eirykhi · Unread post by **eirykhi** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:58 am

no wonder its not working :mad:

Toucan · Unread post by **Toucan** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:54 pm

dammit, thats where i watch torchwood

asharin · Unread post by **asharin** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:54 pm

Toucan wrote:dammit, thats where i watch torchwood

Lol, you can watch it right on the BBC website using the iPlayer

Toucan · Unread post by **Toucan** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:28 pm

yeah i know, but the picture quality was better on the pirate site!