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Written by tinfoil
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:44
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ArsTechnica: In the beginning, Morpheus and KaZaa were developed. Both used the
FastTrack network, which was created by Niklas Zennström and Janus
Friis. In 2002, Morpheus got booted from the FastTrack network. Parent
company StreamCast was furious. KaZaa was sold to Sharman Networks. New
company Altnet (also started by Zennström and Friis) piggybacked on the
KaZaa network as a way to sell legal files. Altnet got a patent
on using hashes to identify song files, a technology that it called
"TrueNames," then began suing firms employed by the RIAA to flood P2P
networks with bogus files.
Zennström and Friis went on to found Skype, later bought by eBay for $2.6 billion. StreamCast, with its business suffering, sued Skype,
claiming that the software was based on the FastTrack technology, and
that StreamCast had the legal right of first refusal to purchase the
system. StreamCast then sued eBay, Skype's new corporate parent. Read More.
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