If this were a movie , it would n’t have a glad ending . Zediva , the now - shuttered scrappy arriviste that seek to provide cheap on-line pic rentals in a novel way , announced over the weekend that it wo n’t be repay any money to its former client .
Zedivastreamed videodisk without succumb to studio limitations like multi - week new spill lockout and featureless rental - only disk . The company ’s ingenious fast one was that it streamed the DVD ’s contents directly to you , concede you outback control of one of its hundreds of DVD players as you watched .
The downside to Zediva ’s unique approach was that tribunal deemed it illegal . The MPAA file courting against Zediva in April 2011 ; by August , a U.S. District Court Judge hadforced Zediva to stop stream movieswith a preliminary cease and desist order . If Zediva were a zombie by that dot , its undead mental capacity find the demise blow in November 2011,when the injunction became permanent , forcing Zediva to forever close its virtual doors .
At that time , Zediva wrote : “ We are quite aware that some of you have idle credits with us and appreciate your longanimity as we figure out our next whole step . ”
It turn out , however , that those “ next steps ” demand legal fee , creditor , and others of that like . Louis E. Black , counsellor to Zediva corporate parent WTV Systems , wrote in an email to the company ’s customers that there is not enough money left to reimburse them . What piddling money is left will be awarded to three charity . So it seems the only Zediva - related cyclosis available to the ship’s company ’s former customers relate to tears and faces .
The full textbook of Black ’s email read as follows :
