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Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype, are working on a new communications venture, BusinessWeek.com has learned. The pair plans to develop software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Either your're a good craftsman or not - if you are, you'll still need luck to build something seriously big. Otherwise you will do just well.
Gnutella (kazaa clone) is traffic shaped on my network, so I can't access it (except at very low speeds).
Add into the mix eBay, Skype, and the consent decree against Madison River, and you really start to wonder how this is all going to play out.
Will eBay be able to sue AT&T if their VOIP packets are faster than eBay's voip packets?
Will the owners of the venice project be able to sue AT&T if their video streaming packets are faster?
Will UTube or Google video be able to sue AT&T?
I don't know .. I guess a lot of it depends on whether or not the democrats can make it into office and who's paying what to who's re-election campaign.
I've tried several of them. You can actually get HBO - ESPN - and some others. Not sure really how legal it is to share your TV connection.
