How DivX Is Escaping The Napster Trap - Part I

from the the-mp3-of-movies dept

Salon is running a two part story on how DivX hopes to avoid the same mistakes made by MP3.com and Napster with their movie compression format. This part of the story, though, is mostly about the history of DivX which really isn't anything new.

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    Ryan, 15 Mar 2001 @ 2:33pm

    Just one question

    What's with the name DivX? Is there some link between this codec and the failed DVD competitor?

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