That case resulted in the shutdown of the Grokster service after the U.S.
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Morpheus and its parent company are no strangers to the courts, having battled for years with movie and music studios as one of the lead defendants in the MGM vs. StreamCast’s general counsel Matthew Neco said many of the 21 defendants named in the suit “engaged in a conspiracy and shut Morpheus out of the FastTrack P2P market and failed to honor an agreement with StreamCast that it had the right to acquire the FastTrack technology and other assets.” Another attorney for the firm said FastTrack “rightfully belongs to StreamCast.” The complaint suggests that Morpheus’ 28 million users were “knocked off” the FastTrack network as a prelude to the sale of Skype, essentially clearing the way for the Skype sale to eBay, a $2.6 billion deal announced last September. Deal Not DoneĪccording to the lawsuit, Kazaa co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who went on to found Skype, “engaged in a conspiracy through which they, among other things, misappropriated assets and a customer base belonging to StreamCast and illegally and secretly transferred away the rights to the FastTrack technology.” “The real story needs to be told.”Īn eBay spokesperson declined to comment on the suit. “We are taking action because we believe the rights to the Skype and FastTrack technologies were swept out from under our feet, and our 28 million Morpheus users were stolen from us,” said Michael Weiss, StreamCast’s CEO. District Court in Los Angeles, the suit claims violation of the RICO Act as well as antitrust violations. The suit was originally filed in January but was updated on Monday to include eBay for the first time.Īt issue is the FastTrack IP technology, which StreamCast used to launch Morpheus and which it claims it should have had the right to acquire under an earlier agreement with the founders of Kazaa and Skype.įiled in U.S. In addition to $4.1 billion in damages, the suit seeks an injunction that would prohibit eBay from selling Skype’s online phone calling services. StreamCast claims it had the right of first refusal when the founders of Kazaa sold the company and transferred its phone technology to another firm.
StreamCast Networks filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founders of Kazaa, another peer-to-peer network.
#Streamcast morpheus software
The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a US$4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it.
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