Jun 4 2005

File-Sharing Pioneer Turns to Free Internet Calling

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About 70 miles from the U.S. border that he will not cross, Niklas Zennstrom is pondering which gets him more excited: making life miserable for entrenched monopoly businesses or making money doing it. The answer is both, and two of the world’s largest industries haven’t been the same since he went to work.

 

Neither has the Internet. In co-creating the file-sharing software Kazaa in 2000, Zennstrom helped fuel an online revolution that music labels and motion picture studios say threatens their existence. Sued by the entertainment industry even though he sold Kazaa in 2002, Zennstrom avoids the United States as his lawyers seek to remove him from the case.

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