Tag: KAZAA

After popularizing peer-to-peer piracy and single-handedly destroying the conventional-plastic-disc distribution channel, it's only fitting that the creator of Kazaa now plays a part in rebuilding the music industry. Enter stage left: Rdio, flanked by the creator of Skype. Sign up now, because you're going to want a piece of this pie when it leaves private beta testing. CD sales are at an ...

Napster did it. Limewire did it. Now word on the street is that former den of pirates, Kazaa is returning from the dead as a subscription-based music service, complete with music from 4 of the 5 major music labels. The service will set you back $20/month for access to over a million songs. Tracks will be available in Windows Media Audio format, with some DRM restrictions. For instance, you'll ...

When we first heard about the RIAA's recent filesharing suit victory and the 220k dollar judgment against the user in question -- we thought, "You'd have to be mad to share enough songs to rack up a judgment that large." Not so fast, jack. The offending copyright infringements totaled just 24--that's right, twenty-four copyright protected files on the user's drive. Breaking down to nearly 10 large ...

Joost co-founder Niklas Zennström says more than a million people have signed up to beta test Joost. The service from the makers of Skype and Kazaa is still invitation only, but a few months ago Joost removed restrictions on how many invitations users could send out. Of course, having 1 million registered users doesn't mean there are that many people using the P2P video application on a daily ...

Internet video platform Joost is inching closer to a public launch. Last week the Joost announced partnerships with 32 advertisers. Today the company announced that it is allowing current users to send an unlimited number of Joost invitations to their friends. This is sort of the Gmail version of a public beta. You can't just sign up through the Joost homepage yet, but it shouldn't be too hard to ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Video_A_peek_inside_Joost'; So what's all this hullabaloo about Joost anyway? If you aren't lucky enough to score one of the invites we're giving away, take a peep inside Joost with our handy video. If you're impatient, skip ahead about a minute, because Joost on a Mac takes a wee bit to shake the cobwebs off. Click To Play ...

Two major updates from Joost, the online TV project formerly known as The Venice Project and created by the makers of Skype and KaZaa. First and foremost, there's a Mac client available. It looks and works exactly like the PC client. For now, it only works on Intel based Macs. And second, Joost has issued an update that improves video quality, as well as adding new video content. One of the ...

Another one bites the dust folks, well not yet. Morpheus, the p2p file sharing network owned by StreamCast, lost its case in court. The network, like many others is now in danger of being shut down because of copyright infringement charges. LimeWire was similarly sued by the RIAA in August, as well as Grokster, Napster, Kazaa, and many others. Some of these networks have been shut-down, had to ...

Leslie Maxfield had no idea that downloading music was illegal. He has been called a "music pirate" and a "songlifter" by the RIAA. Of course Leslie and his family meant to steal from the RIAA, just like everyone who has been sued so far. I'm sorry, but this sort of thing really gets under my skin. There really is no way to distinguish legitimate and illegitimate sites, especially for someone who ...

The creators of the infamous Kazaa, and the now eBay-owned Skype, comes a new product that is sure to turn the industry up into a tizzy. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time developing a new communications software venture aimed at TV. The product, code named "The Venice Project" is a means of distributing video over the internet. The pair has supposedly amassed a team of ...

Slyck News has put together a list of their picks for the biggest winners and losers in file-sharing for 2005. File sharing's winners? BitTorrent, Apple, LimeWire, The Pirate Bay, and open source. The losers? Sony-BMG, Kazaa owners Sharman Networks, Grokster, pay P2P, and, of course, perennial loser the RIAA. I'd personally add to the winners list Fiona Apple, whose new album, which is being ...