Skype Founders Plan To Launch Web TV Service -Paper

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The founders of file-swapping service KaZaA and Internet calling programme Skype plan to launch advertising-supported Internet television shortly, Skype co-founder Janus Friis told a Danish newspaper.

The project, code-named Venice, will bring quality TV programmes for free to consumers who have a broadband Internet connection, he told Boersen financial newspaper.

"We will simply present it to the public when we feel that it works well enough and there is enough content. And it will not be much longer before it is out. It is a question of a month or two," Friis was quoted as saying when he attended Boersen's Executive Club on Wednesday night in Copenhagen.

Skype Founders Plan To Launch Web TV Service -Paper [today.reuters.co.uk]

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Good post but, when you think about it, it would almost be bigger news if these guys were NOT going to do this.

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Those guys are really smart and own the core P2P technology thro a separate company and that was not part of the skype-ebay deal or their previous sale of kazaa.

So they can simply wrap a suitable application around that p2p technology and create a new company once in 2 years or so :)