Monday, August 07, 2006

RIAA Body Count - August 6

Filed in archive Companies by Marc on August 06, 2006

A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows.

RIAA Body Count
In active litigation
pic Limewire 8-06 Gnutella P2P network
pic Morpheus 10-01, latest Gnutella P2P network Neo P2P network Bit Torrent P2P Network
Received cease & desist letter
pic eDonkey 9-05 eDonkey P2P network
Agreed to transition to authorized business
pic Kazaa 7-06 Fast Track P2P network
Agreed to close

BearShare 5-06 Gnutella P2P network
Converted to authorized business

iMesh 10-05 Gnutella P2P network
Ceased operations

Grokster 11-05 Fast Track P2P network
pic WinMX 9-05
Authorized businesses with major label content

MyPeer announced Bit Torrent P2P Network

Qtrax announced

BitTorrent announced Bit Torrent P2P Network

iMesh 10-05 Gnutella P2P network

Maxhboxx announced
pic pic

This list includes only parties that publicly develop decentralized P2P software for major networks. It does not include freeware/open source resuscitations or distributions, web sites, servers, international software or services, or older software (Napster 1.0, Scour, Aimster, Audiogalaxy, etc.).

The P2P Insider's Blog will run occasional updates. Feel free to comment with additions. Go to RIAABodyCount.com to be forwarded to the latest Body Count.