We brought you word a couple of months ago about DivX’s closure of the Stage 6 video portal, which, in all its time of activity, never managed to become a lossless or a profitable platform. According to Martin of gHacks.net, evidently “bandwidth and server costs accumulated to more than a million dollars each month.” It was certainly popular, but it’s financial legitimacy was very much in question, so it ceased to operate.
Well it looks like Stage6 is coming back. Sort of. A new effort, dubbed "DivXit," is being launched in less than one week's time, on April 29, and it is purported to be an "alternative/clone" of DivX's original service. Given that phrasing, it's likely not the direct creation - or "recreation" of the DivX engineering team. Which, you know, might cause some conflicts with those holding that trademark. If that ends up the case, it'll be off to a messy start for sure. (We legal neophytes here are curious. Can anyone choose to develop a software component called "DivX Core converter"? Is Larry Lessig free for a quick Q&A?)