Yes, a pity.
Goodbye note can be found here:
http://www.stage6.com/
The shut down is the 28th..

Tis sad indeed. Get your Ram Das and Terence McKenna vids while you still can.

I'd love to know what the inside word is on it closing. I bet it's cos they couldn't figure out a way to make it profitable.

Action:
-Yahoo group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/save-stage6/
-Banner "Save Stage6"
http://www.melfilms.com/save6.jpg
-Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/pros599/petition.html

Coverage:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/6676de5e5d10304a1cfdfc3a1ad7a829.htm
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080225005495&newsLang=en

Background:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/63562-can-divxs-safe-harbor-protect-it-from-stage6-pirates

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Glad we didn't have them as a host then. We considered it. This is why we don't just have open submission from all potential hosts.

Edit: on reading the goodbye note- that's why we don't host our own video as well. Bandwidth can get expensive as hell- and no one has figured out how to make it pay yet.

@dag
..so what do you think of this
http://geek.videosift.com/talk/TV-distribution-system-based-on-P2Psocial-interaction
p2p project?

SIGN THE PETITION http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pros599

I just found this place Quick Silver Screen.
http://quicksilverscreen.com/

It looks like a lot of their content is from Stage 6.

I don't know why the site is so popular (300k users?), but I'm fairly sure that they cloned SiftBot:
http://quicksilverscreen.com/profile?m=145690

I've been using QSS for leik, the last two months, and yes, most of the content is excellent stage6 stuff. Im not sure if it is being hosted from stage6 or if it is actually on QSS's servers. Also, it is not really a clone of the sift, really, at all...

The petition to save Stage6 is at 10 000, add to it if you feel the need.

I honestly think that Joox.net is part of the problem... but of course... where am I going to get all of my royalty free videos from now?

Couldn't they have just instituted an admin checkpoint system instead of closing down?

http://www.veoh.com/stage6.html

Veoh is pleased to welcome Stage6 users and publishers.
Veoh already has many of the features you have grown to love on Stage6, and we are constantly expanding our feature set.
Veoh lets you:

* - Upload videos of any length (including DivX)
* - Download videos to your PC and watch later (including DivX)
* - Watch millions of videos from TV networks to independent publishers
* - Communicate with over 23 million monthly users

We hope that you enjoy using Veoh, and welcome :-)