eclectica
2003-09-27, 22:35
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Joltid (http://www.joltid.com) is a company founded by Niklas Zennstrom, the person who developed the Kazaa program. Both Kazaa and Joltid have been sold to Sharman Networks.
Joltid has two product lines, both of which are made to reduce bandwidth for ISPs that is caused by file sharing:
PeerCache (http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peercache/) and PeerEnabler (http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peerenabler/).
PeerCache is made for ISPs. They have a cache of commonly traded files in p2p networks, so that when a person downloads a song from another, he is actually getting it from a cache at a more local server. Otherwise it could come from a long distance p2p connection, which costs the ISP more. The record companies are now pondering whether to sue Joltid over the PeerCache software, because the cache, which is on a hard drive, to them represents a tangible hard copy of copyright infringement. This brings up an interesting question, which is: At what point is someone guilty of copyright infringement? If it is not stored on the hard drive but stored in the memory, is that copyright infringement?
PeerEnabler is made for the users, and it is special software which has a person store common files of internet sites on the hard drive of the person. This reminds of the way in which Freenet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/) works, because it creates a decentralized internet. The selling point to users would be that their internet sites and browsing would load faster. But I think it will get installed on the computers of people without them wanting to particularly. It will probably come bundled with other software that people install, like Kazaa. The program uses DRM technology to verify the files that are stored on the computers of users. The advantage for publishers is that their files will be propagated through the internet using the bandwidth of users rather than using the bandwidth of a website. The program claims not to have any spyware, but there seems to be some kind of affiliation with Altnet (http://www.altnet.com/) and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (http://www.brilliantdigital.com/). See these links:
http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peerenabler/faq
http://www.altnet.com/about/pressreleases/press_release9.asp
Joltid (http://www.joltid.com) is a company founded by Niklas Zennstrom, the person who developed the Kazaa program. Both Kazaa and Joltid have been sold to Sharman Networks.
Joltid has two product lines, both of which are made to reduce bandwidth for ISPs that is caused by file sharing:
PeerCache (http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peercache/) and PeerEnabler (http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peerenabler/).
PeerCache is made for ISPs. They have a cache of commonly traded files in p2p networks, so that when a person downloads a song from another, he is actually getting it from a cache at a more local server. Otherwise it could come from a long distance p2p connection, which costs the ISP more. The record companies are now pondering whether to sue Joltid over the PeerCache software, because the cache, which is on a hard drive, to them represents a tangible hard copy of copyright infringement. This brings up an interesting question, which is: At what point is someone guilty of copyright infringement? If it is not stored on the hard drive but stored in the memory, is that copyright infringement?
PeerEnabler is made for the users, and it is special software which has a person store common files of internet sites on the hard drive of the person. This reminds of the way in which Freenet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/) works, because it creates a decentralized internet. The selling point to users would be that their internet sites and browsing would load faster. But I think it will get installed on the computers of people without them wanting to particularly. It will probably come bundled with other software that people install, like Kazaa. The program uses DRM technology to verify the files that are stored on the computers of users. The advantage for publishers is that their files will be propagated through the internet using the bandwidth of users rather than using the bandwidth of a website. The program claims not to have any spyware, but there seems to be some kind of affiliation with Altnet (http://www.altnet.com/) and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (http://www.brilliantdigital.com/). See these links:
http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peerenabler/faq
http://www.altnet.com/about/pressreleases/press_release9.asp