DIVX was so bad it took forever for people to start using the DivX video format because of the similarity in names (which I think was intentional for some reason).
Also, is this a black guy, or a white guy with a bad tan, or just some generic minority? It's really hard to tell. He could be any number of different races. He's pan-racial.
They fail to mention how you have to have your DIVX player hooked into a phone jack and have credit card information stored on it. What really hit DIVX harder than just people realizing how stupid it was, was when people found out that the parent company/operators of the DIVX system were accessing personal information stored inside the player (including credit card information) for unexplained reasons. INterestingly, when that got out, the big consumer backlash started (and by that point, DVD was rentable and so on)