I don't miss the days of storing dozens of DVDs, but I do miss how easy it was to loan them to friends, or borrow one knowing that all I had to do to watch it was pop it in a DVD player and press Play. Digital files are convenient to own, but moving them around can be a minor hassle, especially if you have to convert the files to play nice with various devices.
Stream Nation is a private cloud service built to hold your photos, all the little videos you shoot with your smartphone and camera—oh, and your collection of movies and TV shows too. Everything is private by default, but as you share, or "loan" items with friends and family, they're coaxed to join the service too, and then they can loan items in their own collections with you.
This borrowing/lending model has some restrictions—you can only share with people you know, either folks on your friends list or people whose email address you know. Those people can only stream your content, not download it. And while they have it "borrowed," it's not available for you to watch, or to loan to anyone else.
Stream NationOnce you've added covers to your TV shows, they appear in this well organized interface.
Already, that's a lot more rules than you'd encounter simply ripping a DVD, uploading to Dropbox or YouSendIt, and then sharing that link. But your friends would have to download it before they could see it, and potentially convert it if it's not in a format their device will play.
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