From KaZaA to Skype
By the year 2002, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis not only invented KaZaA, but also entered the Internet telephony market known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with their new service, Skype. Creators of KaZaA avoided the illegal trading issues that Napster had to deal with by creating a FastTrack Software. This enabled PCs logged on to KaZaA to find and share files with each other using supernodes. KaZaA could not be legalized for illegal trading since it kept no track of what was being exchanged among users. It became the most downloadable program in 2000 but few years later companies like Time Warned filed a lawsuit against KaZaA. As a result, owners sold it an Australian company, Sharman Networks.
Zennstrom understood the opportunity in the VoIP industry and figured that VoIP hasn’t made a great impact in the market yet. So he and Friis created Skype that offered VoIP and Instant Messaging. VoIP is basically a routing of voice......
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