The Venice Project gets “Joost” up
Today marks the official launch of the global broadband television service as well as the debut of it’s new name — "Joost."
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the two Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind KaZaA and Skype, which shook up the music and telephone industry respectively, have formally launched their latest salvo at the television industry.
Previously known [...]
“The Venice Project:” a sneak peek with a BETA tester
I have a slew of screen shots and the inside scoop on the cool new creation from the geniuses behind KaZaA and Skype. The Venice Project has begun secretly doling out BETA Tester invites, and I have been fortunate enough to be among them.
Skype and KaZaA co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it [...]
KaZaA Founders in Internet TV Project
The founders of the popular VoIP program Skype and previously used file-sharing software, KaZaA are working on a new project that might be of interest. They have code named the project “Venice” and have revealed it will be only a matter of months before it is released to the public.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom [...]
RIAA goes after more kids
Patricia Santangelo, the mother of two who was sued last year by Elektra Entertainment Group, is now finding out just how ruthless the music industry can be. After refusing to settle with Elektra for sharing six songs on the KaZaA file-sharing network, five record companies, represented by the RIAA, decided to sue her children [...]
KaZaA now settles with music publishers
After more than 2 months of negotiations, KaZaA has now reached a deal with the music publishing industry to settle its claims of copyright infringement.
KaZaA, told the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday that it had reached a tentative deal with the National Music Publishers’ Association, or NMPA, It has agreed to [...]
The Venice Project gears up for “primetime,” goes beta
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have already changed the world as we know it and intend to do it again with their latest venture, the Venice Project, P2P TV distribution. The Venice Project is their latest attempt to alter the traditional boundaries of media distribution. With KaZaA they reshaped the way the world shares multimedia [...]
Skype founder: Kazaa, Napster help music
Kazaa,Napster Inc and other creators of file-sharing applications have been good for the music industry, Niklas Zennstrom, founder of the now-defunct Kazaa and CEO of Skype, said Monday.
“Kazaa came five years too early, but without that and Napster we would never have seen the transformation we’re seeing in the music industry,” said Zennstrom at a [...]
KaZaa users warned of p2p worm
Researchers are warning peer-to-peer (p2p) application users of a new proof-of-concept virus that acts similarly to the W97M/Melissa malware.
The virus, MSH/Cibyz, which is based on Windows PowerShell, was released by members of the RRLF virus group, according to an advisory from McAfee.
PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language that runs on Microsoft XP, [...]
Illegal downloads create unlikely defendants
Kathy Hartness is a 47-year-old grandmother, churchgoer and gardener who had never been in trouble with the law — until she was served with papers in June for something she did more than a year ago.
She is one of three Kentuckians sued so far this year by national recording companies for violating copyrights by illegally [...]
KaZaA deal worth gloating about?
The international record industry has been heralding as a great victory their deal with P2P software producer Sharman networks, the makers of the KaZaA P2P client. Read for example this note from FT.com, where the settlement is described as as one of the biggest victories against online piracy for the music industry.
Under the terms of [...]
