Filesharing Review > Irony and Mr Zennström's expiry

[Tech news and insider stories for the IT industry - the i-kew blog] Not a penny, say my sources. At his own request: apparently, the recent lawsuits against KazAa (successful in Australia) have left him not just fearing arrest if he sets foot on American soil, but convinced that as soon as he actually gets any money, American copyright lawyers will descend on him like vultures, and shred his pockets for it.

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Brokekid.net: Indeed, the creators of Skype—Niklas Zennström of Sweden, Janus Friis of Denmark, and a set of expert programmers in Estonia and elsewhere—are largely the same team that unleashed Kazaa, the music-sharing program perhaps most loved by music swappers and most reviled by music corporations. So it’s only natural that Zennström and Friis, who have given away more than 10 million copies of their new software to users in more than 170 countries since launching Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies in August 2003, would be anointed by some as Davids aiming their high-tech slingshot at the Goliaths of the telecom world…More

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