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A Cross Between Netflix and Napster . .

With a full-time job and two kids, Michael Shanafelt doesn't have much time to watch movies. Seeing his Netflix or Blockbuster rentals collect dust on top of his TV -- and paying a monthly fee for them -- makes him cringe.Then Shanafelt discovered Peerflix, a DVD trading service that could do for movies what Napster did for digital music -- only legally. No monthly fees. Just 99 cents a transaction. And Shanafelt can keep them as long as he wants.

Read the whole story at San Jose Mercury News, March 10, 2005 »

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