million if found guilty. Video Ezy Chairman Robert Maidment refuted the allegations and vowed to fight the charges. The case was ultimately dropped in April 2001 after the company admitted to misleading customers, made an apology, and paid part of the ACCC's legal costs. In 2003, Video Ezy sold almost all its corporate-owned stores in Australia, leaving only 2 stores, Narellan and Rosehill, some 10 minutes away from its new head office at Rhodes (although in 2006 it would acquire additional corporate-owned stores). The company also commenced selling and renting Ezy Exclusive-branded TV series and movies on DVD such as Dinotopia, Kingpin, Will & Grace, Taken, The Believer and other exclusive titles from Hallmark Entertainment and NBC. These titles were usually branded with Video Ezy's logo and carried slightly different artwork to DVDs sold outside the Region 4 market. Ezy Exclusives were phased out in 2006. In 2004 Video Ezy introduced a subscription scheme called DVD Unlimited; for a monthly fee, Video Ezy customers could take home up to four movies at any one time and pay no late fees. The scheme was inspired by Netflix's online DVD subscription service in the United States. The scheme was unrelated to the New Zealand venture of the same name. In August 2005, business partners Paul Uniacke and Edward Nedelko, who between them owned 24 Video Ezy franchises in Victoria, purchased the shares held in Video Ezy Australasia by CHAMP Ventures, Perpetual Trustees and Ivany Investments to become majority shareholders in the company and replaced Robert Maidment as chairman. At that stage Video Ezy-branded outlets numbered 560 in Australia. The company established a training facility in 2006 to develop staff expertise. They had previously worked with a company called Rascals which promoted the use of Australian Workplace Agreements. In March 2006, Paul Uniacke announced that the company had been working with digital media consultancy The Content Factory to develop a video on demand service with a planned launch the following year. The service would have used set-top boxes for delivering content and was also planned to eventually launch in Video Ezy's international markets. Video Ezy and The Content Factory also trialled a service where customers could download movies at a store to a portable storage device, which could then be watched at home via a digital media player designed by Australian tech company Mobilesoft. Although both services did not move beyond limited market