Grokster delivered its software from advertisements
Grokster has launched this week the Per-version of its p2p-software. It is the first version of its software without doll-plain fizzy drinks or adware. Before that ease must the user at least 19.99 dollar pay.
Popular p2p-services as a KaZaA and Grokster have million users pulled with free downloads and uploads of music and videofiles. Users of the services complain however all long time about the irritating doll-plain fizzy drinks during the seeking to truces.
The Per-version is according to Grokster the answer on these complaints. “With this offer we the user a more pleasant experience for a reasonable price, through which we really our bills can pay”, declares Grokster-senior official Wayne Rosso.
A rival of Grokster, Streamcast Networks, brought out this week in such a way a new version of its Morpheus-software. Hereby get to hide users more possibilities their identity through truces to uploaden and to download via proxyservers.
Both businesses feel strengthened self through a judicial pronunciation in April this year. An American federal judge particular then that p2p-companies not responsible are for the behavior of the users of their software. Grokster and Streamcast Networks lie, as all suppliers of p2p-software, under fire of the Recording Industry Association or America (RIAA), the branch organization of music and movie societies.
The RIAA tries judges it already longer from convincing that the exchange networks continuous infringement commit on the copyright, through users in state to put music to exchange without paying.
The branch organization throws to go accuse it now about someone else bow, with the notification individual users of p2p-services for illicit truce exchange. End of June began the RIAA to own say with a campaign in which with help of special software information is collected about the identity of among many KaZaA-, Grokster- and Morpheus-users. In August, the first charges are submitted, declared the RIAA.