p2pnet.net News:- The Venice Project, the third and supposedly latest big venture of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will be finally out of its beta state quite soon.

It’ll be featured at the Future of Television Forum in NYC, next November 16 and 17, 2006 when Venice Project CEO Fredrik de Wahl is expected to be among the keynote speakers.

InformiTV, which will cover the event, says the Venice Project might look a lot less polemical than Kazaa has been so far.

It’s, “is currently incorporated as ‘Baaima NV,’ a Netherlands Antilles limited company with a post office box at Curacao in the Caribbean, it has been suggested for legal reasons.”

Why? So Zennstrom and Friss will pay less taxes on their upcoming fortune? Or do they anticipate some retaliations from the Warner and friends?

For the record, their first venture, Kazaa, was relocated in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu soon after its buyout by Sherman Networks.

And Skype has been accused of racketeering by Streamcast, another peer-to-peer file-sharing software maker, and patent infringement by Net2Phone.

Thuan Huynh – 21Talks.net

Also See:
Venice Project – Amazon won’t give book-search details to Google, October 24, 2005

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