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IP: another use for Instant Messaging
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 05:46:49 -0500
Napster Spawns a New Net 'Monster' Alec Klein Washington Post Service Monday, February 26, 2001 Software Poised to Take Over Where Troubled Service Leaves Off ALBANY, New York An elevator opens onto a dimly lit hallway. Over creaky floors, under a water-stained ceiling and around the corner stands a gray door bearing a nameplate with small black lettering: AIMSTER. So much for grand entrances. What lies beyond is a gang of tech wonks with big ambitions for reshaping the Web. Inside that unceremonious office, Johnny Deep, a 43-year-old tech whiz, and his college-aged programmers have created software called Aimster that they hope will be the next Napster, the hugely popular music-swapping program whose days as a free service now appear numbered. A federal court has ordered Napster to stop users from downloading copyrighted material onto their personal computers. Napster and Aimster are similar in some ways. Both allow Internet users to search for music files on other computers and copy songs at no cost. But Aimster does something Napster does not: It allows users to swap any kind of digital file, including video, text and photographs. Another big difference is that Aimster piggybacks on the instant-messaging systems that count tens of millions of users, including those on AOL Time Warner's giant AIM service. And Aimster has yet to be challenged by the recording industry or other owners of copyrighted material. <snip> http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=110400840&i=307989&d=1084315 For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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