Peerflix--Legal Peer-to-Peer Trading of Movie DVDs

2004–09March 12, 2005Dana BaggettPeripherals
For $0.99 you can trade an existing owned movie DVD for another that someone else puts up for trade using the clearinghouse Peerflix.com. It's perfectly legal because no copying is involved like with many movie peer-to-peer download services. Peerflix just started at the end of last year and claims 10,000 titles are in its sharing catalog as compared with 35,000 in Netflix's inventory that it loans out for a monthly subscription. More... [Dana Baggett]



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