Kazaa 1.7.0 released / Kazaa loosing legal battle
Posted by me101 on 22 May 2002 - 21:12 · 27 comments & 48 views
About the Author
Full name: Unknown
Forum name:
me101
Contact: via forum PM
Submissions: Normal · Headline
Full name: Unknown
Forum name:
me101Contact: via forum PM
Submissions: Normal · Headline
Slashdot It!
Submit to reddit
Submit to blinklist
Bookmark on del.icio.us
Add to furl
Share on Facebook
Add to Windows Live
Add to Google
Only info I can find are :-
Twice the reach- Double your search results with a single click. KMD will repeat your search on a whole new set of peers, providing you with up to twice the results for each search. New in 1.7
- Media Player enhancements include visualisation in Theatre View, improved codec handling and more file formats supported.. New in 1.7
Visualise It
In a related note, there is a story over on CNet where it looks like KaZaA is running out of money and legal muscle to fend off the RIAA in their court battle etc...
A legal fight that has pitted file-swapping software companies Kazaa BV and StreamCast Networks against big record labels and movie studios is collapsing as the small companies run out of funds.
Netherlands-based Kazaa BV, which created the file-swapping technology underlying Kazaa, Grokster and earlier versions of Morpheus, is conceding defeat--although its founders already appear to have started another near-identical company. Meanwhile, StreamCast is losing a high-powered attorney with a winning track record against the music companies in court.
Despite their court filing, Kazaa BV's founders already appear to be licensing the FastTrack technology though another company. According to documents filed with federal regulators in the United States, a company called Blastoise--owned and operated by the Kazaa BV founders--has already licensed the FastTrack technology to a Los Angeles company named Brilliant Digital Entertainment.
According to those documents filed April 1, Blastoise -- operating under the name Joltid--licensed the FastTrack technology to a Brilliant Digital subsidiary called Altnet, whose software contains the core of a new peer-to-peer network. Blastoise also took a 49 percent stake in Altnet, according to the filing.
Sharman, which now provides the actual Kazaa file-swapping software, also plans to continue using the FastTrack technology. A Sharman representative said the company had been assured that the license to the technology would continue even if the Kazaa BV company goes under. Sharman, which has seen tens of millions of people download the Kazaa software since the company acquired it in February, has not yet been sued.