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KaZaA Founder, Former RIAA Anti-Piracy Head Join Forces to Fight Piracy

By soulxtc

Create software for ISP networks that enables the "instantaneous conversion of infringing activity into legitimate content transactions". Kevin Bermeister who, along with Nikki Hemming, created the KaZaA file-sharing software and was sued for millions by the RIAA from 2004 to 2006, has now partnered with Michael Speck who ran the RIAA's case as the head of its anti-piracy arm, Music Industry Piracy Investigations, have teamed up at Brilliant Digital Entertainment to fight online piracy. The company has developed software which will run on an ISPs network and enable the "instantaneous conversion of infringing activity into legitimate content transactions." In other words, instead of seeing search results for illegally free copyrighted material users will instead see legal copies available for instant purchase. The incentive for the ISPs to run the software is that they are promised a share of the revenue.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).