For Streamcast, more is more: eBay is sued too
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For Streamcast, more is more. More companies sued, more money, more press cuts, more.
Back in March, Streamcast charged Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the duo who developed the technology behind companies Kazaa and Skype, as well as some 20 other companies for racketeering. Now, they updated their “black list”, including this time Skype mother company, eBay.
Including one of the Fortune 50 companies is quite risky. Streamcast could grab more money from their lawsuit ― $12.3 billion in fact ― but the verdict would certainly take longer to get.
In any case, this update seems to have been triggered by the recent eBay announcement to integrate Skype deeper in the toolkit for auctioneers. eBay would then use peer-to-peer functionalities whose development was supported by Streamcast. Unbearable, of course…
For the record, Streamcast claims to share the same technology called FastTrack as the Kazaa file-sharing platform then the Skype peer-to-peer voice client. Streamcast put big bucks developing of the technology, but Zennstrom and Friis took it with them without rewarding anything. Both of them, as usual, haven’t reacted to the news.
Meanwhile, Kazaa has launched a lawsuit against Jon Newton and its blog on peer-to-peer, P2Pnet.net. You can help him get out of there. Be nice, make a donation.
May 24, 2006 | By Nuno
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