START
The P2P Posse Rides Again
| 
Nathan Fox Sean Parker
Nathan Fox Pierce Ledbetter
Nathan Fox Travis Kalanick
Nathan Fox Niklas Zennstr�m
Nathan Fox Janus Friis
Nathan Fox Ian Clarke
<p>T're back. The hot-shot file-sharing coders who came out of nowhere to bring you Napster, Scour, Kazaa, FastTrack, Musicbank, and Freenet are launching a raft of new ventures. Once upon a time, they helped millions swap songs, movies, and software, but most of the companies they founded were destroyed or crippled by the fierce legal attacks of the music and film industries. Their current gigs, most of which have nothing to do with file-sharing, are no less ambitious. But most of them are less likely to draw legal fire.</p>
<EAN PARKER</strm to fame:</stster<br> r of woe:</stker, the "other" Napster founder, was jettisoned in 2000 after his emails – which proclaimed the service would hurt record labels – were used during a court battle with the RIAA.<br> rnd act:</stxo<br> rnew deal:</stil. In November, Parker released an app that updates addresses in Microsoft Outlook. It benefits from a huge installed base – just like Napster.</p>
<IERCE LEDBETTER</strm to fame:</sticbank<br> r of woe:</st virtual music locker imploded in April 2001, before most consumers had a chance to use the product.<br> rnd act:</stnsparency Software<br> rnew deal:</st security. Late to the file-sharing party, Ledbetter launched Transparency in November. The PeerVu system monitors networks and warns sysadmins when users download copyrighted files.</p>
<RAVIS KALANICK</strm to fame:</stur<br> r of woe:</st1999, Kalanick & Co. scared the bejesus out of entertainment honchos with Scour, the first popular multimedia download service. The company was sued for $250 billion.<br> rnd act:</st Swoosh<br> rnew deal:</st data delivery. Red Swoosh taps into unused memory on PCs to quickly and cheaply deliver data.</p>
<IKLAS ZENNSTRÖM AND JANUS FRIIS</strm to fame:</staa/FastTrack<br> r of woe:</sttraught over being sued in October 2001, the European engineers sold FastTrack, the software that drives Kazaa, to Australia's Sharman Networks.<br> rnd act:</stper<br> rnew deal:</stFi. Skyper, launched last spring, links wireless Internet access points to create shared networks.</p>
<AN CLARKE</strm to fame:</stenet<br> r of woe:</stpite infighting and technical problems, Clarke's open source network persists. Will his latest P2P software finally deliver the anonymity promised to users?<br> rnd act:</statics<br> rnew deal:</stll apps. Cematics makes whatever helper applications Clarke and partner Scott Miller dream up. First product: a tool for Web developers.</p>
<strT</st>
<a hal : noise</a>>
<a h Your Enemies Closer</a>>
<a hition</a>>
<a hTARY HARDWARE</a>>
<a hNGINEERING</a>>
<a hon Watch</a>>
<a h Man</a>>
<a hoded View</a>>
<a hng the Wells</a>>
<a ht sheet</a>>
<a hware</a>>
ENTREPENEURS </p>
