MoldySpore writes "When Zediva burst onto the streaming scene earlier this year, they managed to do being nobody else was doing. Navigating around the copyright law, they found a way to stream rental movies not currently attainable on other services, because they were still inside the DVD sales window, and filled a role not currently part of the competitions' services. The service grants a 'rental' of the violent




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constitution movie to the user, who is then able to stream it over the internet, usually with the option to re-rent after being played. By having it be a rental service, they were able to avoid some of the legalese registered representative with streaming movies outside of that sales window. Needless to say the MPAA was not pleased. But instead of making nice with the MPAA, Zediva has decided to fight back in the form of dear legal heavy-hitters from 'elite San Francisco law firm Durie Tangri,' which has forced the MPAA to hire their own team of dear legal ninjas. Zediva argues what most technologically hip people would when looking at this service: that they are fundamentally a rental service who are renting sensual media, and on the assumption the DVD player and a very long cable to the renter's TV."

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