StreamCast sues eBay
p2p news / p2pnet: Morpheus distributor StreamCast Networks wants a world-wide injunction on the sale and marketing of eBay’s Skype VoIP products, as well as billions of dollars in unspecified damages.
With that in mind, it’s filed RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, anti-trust and other claims against eBay and 21 other defendants, who include Kazaa co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
Also named is Kazaa ceo Nikki Hemming who, with Sharman Networks, is currently suing p2pnet for libel.
“We’re 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,” says StreamCast ceo Michael Weiss.
The lawsuit, first filed in March, was today amended at the Federal Court in the Central District of California in Los Angeles.
The suit says Zennstrom and Friis, “profited handsomely from the sale of Skype to eBay only after they and others 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.”
Many of the defendants 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, says the law suit.
“The sale of Skype to eBay was made possible through a scheme by many of the defendants to misappropriate the FastTrack peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to StreamCast,” states outside counsel Dan Woods.
“We’ve now added eBay as a defendant to this lawsuit.”
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filed in March - The StreamCast , Skype wars, May 29, 2006
NOTE: p2pnet is currently being sued for alleged libel by Kazaa owner Sharman Networks and Kazaa ceo Nikki Hemming. In the interests of freedom of speech, we’re determined to fight this case before a jury but we don’t have the financial or legal resources to meet them on level ground. Any help you can give will be very gratefully received. Please go here for more.
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:13 pm
And you wonder why Kazaa ,Sharman Networks and Nikki Hemming has a vendatta against you Jon .
The clues to why you are being sued as a publsiher are right infront of you …
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:49 pm
For reporting what a law suit alleges? For reporting what one company says about others? You’re a freakin retard.
May 23rd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
P2PNet Morpheus as a Advertiser and Streamcast Networks own Morpheus .
Shaman Networks and Streamcast have been throwing legal jabs at each other for a few years now and Shaman and Nikki Hemming it seems have tried to rope in Jon Newton in their battle against Streamcast networks ,
There is more to Nikki Hemmings frivolous lawsuit against Jon than her feeling being hurt .
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Man this is the best show around, someone should make a 1st person perspective game where you runaround shooting people but instead of killing em you sue em ,awesome
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:17 pm
all it is is lawyers encouraging the retards to sue each other so that they can pocket vast amounts of money from them!
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:39 pm
would it be because you clearly have a vndetta going against them Jon?
May 24th, 2006 at 12:08 am
I wonder how the signers of the constitution and declaration of independence would feel about todays judicial system in America. (before anyone says it I know Jon’s lawsuit is under Canadian law, not American).
May 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am
It’s a matter of public record for fuck’s sake - StreamCast is suing a bunch of people who they believe screwed them.
Are you perhaps suggesting that p2pnet self-censors any story that may upset someone? Perhaps every other website shoud do the same too?
Maybe next time you’d like to put your real name, address and phone number in your postings too - it would save a lot of time when someone takes offence at your muddled ramblings and sues.
May 25th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Congratulations to John for keeping up this flame against himself. Not many people would let some goose print that stuff about them out of context and offensive, but I guess that he’s stck with this now that he’s been caught out. I’ll post with my real name when you and every other record company exec using this site does