estimates that file-sharing cost music companies $7 billion in sales over the past two years. Legal experts say Zennstrom's new product poses a fresh threat for the music industry, which already blames Kazaa and similar programs for its sharp drop in sales in recent years. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group, is investigating whether to sue Joltid Ltd., maker of PeerCache, or ISPs that use it.
Niklas Zennstrom, who co-founded Kazaa B.V., the company that created the program of choice for sharing songs and videos online, now is offering Internet service providers PeerCache - software that lets the ISP's users download commonly shared files from the ISP itself, rather than over the Internet from another user's hard drive. Requirements and additional information:Despite being an anti-adware program, it contains adverts.The Swede behind the world's most popular song-swapping software is at it again. The past and the future of P2P come together in a solution that comes close to a social network. It also includes a dating service that will allow us to speak with that boy or girl with an incredible music collection that is similar to our taste.Īnd to keep us protected from the threats that are associated to P2P networks, it includes a powerful antivirus that immediately detects if the file that we are downloading is infected. Kazaa comes with innovating tools like the possibility to import our contacts from Skype and be able to speak and share files with them. Kazaa excelled as the king of this kind of downloads, displacing the forerunner and ill-fated Napster.Īs time went past is started to be used less due to the emergence of eMule and various legal problems, until it has emerged from its ashes as a P2P tool that tries to be social and places its roots in the management and playback of multimedia files. At the beginning of the P2P technology, when there were neither mules nor torrents, Kazaa stood out as one of the best and most used applications to share music.ĭue to the scarce bandwidth of that period, what users did the most was share loose songs.
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