AOL and "gnutella"
bubbleghost
Some of you may be aware of this little "slip-up"
From "ZDTV news"
"AOL denied Wednesday it authorized the development of Gnutella, a
software program that would directly compete with the controversial
Napster.
The ISP giant said that members of its subsidiary Nullsoft were acting
on their own when they created the program that allows users to swap
digital music files over the Internet, according to a Reuters report.
"The Gnutella software was an unauthorized freelance project and the
Web site that allowed access to the software was taken down
yesterday," Josh Felser, general manager for Winamp, said in a
statement Wednesday.
Gnutella received media attention Tuesday when an alpha release was
posted on a back page of the Nullsoft website. AOL last summer bought
Nullsoft, which developed the Winamp MP3 player and Shoutcast.
The recording industry has criticized MP3 players because they feel
they encourage illegal copying of music files. In fact, the Recording
Industry of America recently filed suit against the makers of Napster
for piracy.
America Online is in the process of a megamerger with Time Warner,
whose media properties include some of the world's largest record
labels.
Reuters contributed to this report. "
AOL attempts to "dump" on its future business partner, and then denies
it.
Much like it does its customers
Damian Yerrick
<bubbl...@hushhushmail.com> wrote:
>"AOL denied Wednesday it authorized the development of Gnutella"
I bet you pin0cchio will be all over this:
"Is it free software? If not, why is it called GNU Tella?"
>a software program that would directly compete with the
>controversial Napster.
And gnapster and knapster and crapster...
>The recording industry has criticized MP3 players because
>they feel they encourage illegal copying of music files.
They felt the same way about audio casette tapes.
>America Online is in the process of a megamerger with Time Warner,
>whose media properties include some of the world's largest record
>labels.
Who could presumably release some songs exclusively on Gnutella.
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Damian Yerrick
(Joseph Joyce) wrote:
>Bullshit...@hotmail.comRemoveBullshit (Damian Yerrick) wrote in
><1p13ds0itetj3emd5...@4ax.com>:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:55:38 GMT, bubbleghost
>><bubbl...@hushhushmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"AOL denied Wednesday it authorized the development of Gnutella"
>>
>>I bet you pin0cchio will be all over this:
>> "Is it free software? If not, why is it called GNU Tella?"
>
>It was open source.
But the loss of Gnutella won't mean that much, with open source
NapsterP clients and servers. It'll only mean that Nullsoft(tw)
won't be able to throw up ads onto everybody's screens.
Anyway, Nullsoft has another method of sharing MP3s over your
always-on connection: setting up your own online radio station
with Shoutcast.