August 2nd, 2011

Movie Streaming Service Zediva Shuttered Over Legal Battle With MPAA, Vows To Keep Fighting

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There goes Zediva. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the video streaming start-up by ruling that the company violates copyright infringement. The injunction will effectively shut down Zediva, but due to a legal technicality, it won’t officially be issued for another week.

Zediva should have seen this coming. The company billed its streaming service as a DVD rental over the… → Read More

March 17th, 2011

Startup Zediva Streams Movies From DVD Players To Customers, But Is It Legal?

Zediva is attacking the movie streaming business from a slightly different angle than Netflix and all the rest. They stream DVDs — not digital copies but rather the actual DVDs from actual DVD players. Zediva buys the DVDs retail and streams them from a bank of DVD players located somewhere in Silicon Valley. Customers then rent control over these DVD players for four hours.

The company… → Read More