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DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 84

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 25, 2008 @05:51PM 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."

Lessig Decides Not to Run For Congress 80

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 25, 2008 @05:01PM from the jedis-are-going-to-feel-this-one dept.

micheas writes "Larry Lessig has decided that running for U.S. Congress himself in a special election would be too risky to his Change Congress movement and has decided not to run. 'With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08? As explained on the ActBlue page, all will go to (the yet to be established) Change Congress organization.'"

Comment Re:Sounds superfluous (Score 1) 223

by coffee-drinking-man on Friday March 18, 2005 @11:58AM (#11975914) Attached to: MIT Urges Brazilian Government to Use Linux

Even if it is state policy, I don't think it is superfluous to receive support from a respected institution such as a MIT. It is not always that universities approve of developmental programs in the developing world. Kudos for MIT.

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