Posts Tagged with ‘kazaa’

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]

Joost, the P2P TV application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has now announced that more than one million users have signed up for its video service, which is still in beta testing and available by invitation only.
Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Joost co-founder, said at a recent Skype press event that the service should be launched before 2008 arrives. No specific date was announced, but he did say that "the plan is that the service will be fully [...]

Published today by BBC News is a Tech Lab essay by none other than Niklas Zennstrom, the co-founder of the VoIP sensation, Skype, and IPTV venture Joost. If those two don’t ring any bells, maybe “KaZaA” will. Yes, a rebel doomed to a life of innovation, Zennstrom waxes on for several hundreds words about why it’s really quite easy to chart a wild success in the technology industry. Let’s pick apart some of the paragraphs, shall we?
The term [...]