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Shortly after the release of Gnutella by America Online employee Justin Frankel, Kan and several friends set up a portal site intended to serve as an information hub for Gnutella developers. Kan helped write an early version of Gnutella designed to work on the Unix operating system, and he and his partners wanted to help bring together fragmenting efforts to extend the original technology. With interest in file swapping running high, the site drew journalists as well as developers, and Kan quickly became an unofficial ambassador between the non-technical world and peer-to-peer coders.
Shortly after the release of Gnutella by America Online employee Justin Frankel, Kan and several friends set up a portal site intended to serve as an information hub for Gnutella developers. Kan helped write an early version of Gnutella designed to work on the Unix operating system, and he and his partners wanted to help bring together fragmenting efforts to extend the original technology.
With interest in file swapping running high, the site drew journalists as well as developers, and Kan quickly became an unofficial ambassador between the non-technical world and peer-to-peer coders.
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic.
Kan, peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer extraordinaire, died on June 29. His professional life revolved around developing new ways to share information easily and quickly. Thousands of people use Gnutella to swap files, a program Kan was instrumental in developing and promoting. Kan's suicide was not completely unexpected, according to some of his friends. They had hoped Kan was winning his hard-fought battle against depression exacerbated by personal problems
Kan, peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer extraordinaire, died on June 29. His professional life revolved around developing new ways to share information easily and quickly. Thousands of people use Gnutella to swap files, a program Kan was instrumental in developing and promoting.
Kan's suicide was not completely unexpected, according to some of his friends. They had hoped Kan was winning his hard-fought battle against depression exacerbated by personal problems
Getting music for free on the Internet is still a very easy thing to do. How do you compete? Well, I don't think you compete, but you do create a service that has its own value. And I always point back to my experience in the cable television business. I remember reporters writing, 'Cable television as a business will totally fail because no one will ever pay for TV--it just won't happen; it's not realistic to think people will pay for TV because TV's free.' And in the early days, let's face it, everybody pirated cable. I didn't know anybody who actually paid for it. They all sort of snuck up poles at night and ran it into their house. And there wasn't very sophisticated encryption, so it was relatively easy to do. And over time, two things happened. First, the quality got better. It became more convenient. And at the same time, there were defensive measures, too. The encryption became more sophisticated. And now there are still probably pirates, but it's really been marginalized. Most people when they move into a house will hook up cable and pay for it, right?
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