From: v - Mark Kuharich (mkuharich@punchnetworks.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 15:26:44 PDT
Everyone knows about the poster child for peer-to-peer file sharing,
Napster; and its distributed brethren, Gnutella; and the censorship-free
anonymous Freenet.
Money changes everything
Now we are seeing some interesting business models emerge from the
primordial ooze of this sweeping new peer-to-peer architectural change:
gonesilent used to be called InfraSearch
http://www.gonesilent.com/press.html
investors of note: Marc Andreessen, and other veterans of Netscape and
Excite.
engineer of note: Gene Kan, one of the founding Gnutella developers, who
recently testified before a Congressional hearing on digital music
http://judiciary.senate.gov/wl7112000.htm
AppleSoup is a copyright friendly version of Napster which can be used to
share a variety of media types
http://www.applesoup.com/buzz.html
founders of note: early Napster founder and investors, Bill Bales and Adrian
Scott
investor of note: former Sun Java product manager and current Marimba CEO
Kim Polese
Mark Kuharich
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