PeerCache follows KaZaA

Stockholm (PSE, 08. September 2003 11:10) – the Swedish KaZaA joint founder Niklas Zennstrom developed a new file sharing often commodity. PeerCache permits it to ISP Usern to download music files directly of the ISP instead of over the InterNet of the non removable disk other user.Zennstrom offers already its new product to InterNet service Providern, as barrier the Street journal (WSJ) today, Monday, reported. “PeerCache will reduce the file sharing costs of InterNet service Provider”, so Ben Edelman, partner with Harvard Law Schools Berkman center for InterNet & Society. “and it increases the Download speed for user, which more Usern an incentive gives, which use, explains service” Edelman further.

Zennstrom has already three paying InterNet Provider as a customer, under it Wanadoo Netherlands http://www.wanadoo.nl, a subsidiary of the France Telekom. Over the other two customers Zennstrom does not give information, so the WSJ. According to expert opinions threaten Zennstroms new software the music industry, which already suffered a large damage by KaZaA and similar services. In the past two years the file sharing has disk labels sieves billion dollar cost. The federation of the music industry internationally Federation OF the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) http://www.ifpi.org employs already investigations whether it will raise that ISPs, which uses the new technology against the PeerCache manufacturer Joltid http://www.joltid.com or complaint. Zennstrom persists however in the fact that the PeerCache technology, which was released in this summer is legal in the USA and in Europe.

Zennstrom was sued already past year of the IFPI, whereupon the Swede sold the KaZaA software and Website. KaZaA altogether 270 million time world-wide downloaded from the InterNet, five times as often as Napster. Zennstrom became however not rich thereby.

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