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...first time that Zennstrom has pursued a counterintuitive business model. In 2000 he and Skype co-founder Janus Friis launched Kazaa, a peer-to-peer exchange that allowed users to swap music and videos online. Now Zennstrom is at the vanguard of voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), a technology that lets voice traffic travel over the Internet. Gartner Inc. analyst Katja Ruud estimates that about 100 million people worldwide will use VOIP by 2008. Even telecom giants like AT&T, BT Group and Verizon realize they have to offer VOIP. Zennstrom practices extreme VOIP: free calls and free software...
...ARRESTED. ISAMU KANEKO, 33, software developer charged with creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...
Noticed something weird about your computer lately? Maybe you see yourself uploading files with names like “Porno Screensaver.scr” on Kazaa even though you didn’t download anything of the sort. Maybe your antivirus software doesn’t load anymore, or your computer beeps randomly. Or maybe your hard drive has been constantly running ever since you downloaded that attached message from the “Harvard.edu Team...
Richard E. Chernela, spokesperson for Sharman Networks, the company that owns the popular file-sharing tool Kazaa, said he also believes the earlier surveys on file-sharing were inaccurate...
When asked about Kazaa and other file-sharing programs, he responded simply that, “You have to figure out what’s fair.” Though an obvious oversimplification of the controversy, Jones’ response made it seem reasonable to reconsider the possibility that there is an attainable, fair and final agreement...