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Altnet to pay Kazaa users for file-swapping
News A year after launching its sometimes-controversial alliance with Kazaa, Brilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Altnet is kicking off a new, ambitious stage of its peer-to-peer marketing campaign. Later this week, Kazaa parent Sharman Networks...
[June 2, 2003, 7:36]
File-sharing networks go into battle
News In a sign that file-sharing communities may start to turn on each other, Altnet said Thursday that rival networks may be violating its patent for digital tags and it plans to bring to them in line. In a first step, the Brilliant Digital...
[June 6, 2003, 8:31]
Brilliant: Nothing to worry about
News Users cannot propagate their own content through Altnet. CNET News.com talked to Bermeister about his plans for Altnet and the storm of criticism. Q: What was the origin of Altnet? But Monday, the company revealed that it had entered a more...
[April 5, 2002, 8:53]
P2P group seeks cross-industry detente
News This is roughly the business plan for a joint venture between Altnet and Sharman, but Lafferty said the technology could be handled by anyone, not just those companies. But in their bid to win respectability -- as well as economic and legal...
[October 8, 2003, 15:25]
Kazaa loses court battle
News The other option was that the Altnet search software - called TopSearch - be restricted to providing lists of non-copyright-infringing works. Proceedings were dismissed against respondents Sharman License Holdings, Sharman chief technology officer...
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Kazaa's parent takes another legal beating
News Major record labels Universal Music Australia, EMI, the merged Sony/BMG, Warner, Festival Mushroom and 25 additional applicants are suing Sharman Networks and associated parties -- including Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE), Altnet, Sharman...
[November 29, 2004, 7:40]
Kazaa firm banned from suing record labels
News The suit claimed that Sharman and its partner Altnet tried repeatedly to win licences for copy-protected content to distribute these online but were repeatedly rebuffed by different labels and studios, which presented a single front.
[July 8, 2003, 14:56]
Kazaa plans defensive ad campaign
News But it also has worked increasingly closely with Altnet, a division of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, to persuade the file-swapping community to buy or download authorised versions of entertainment content such as music or video games.
[November 13, 2003, 11:50]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News Altnet has been trying unsuccessfully for more than a year to strike distribution deals with major record labels and movie studios. Today's unrivalled file-swapping leader, Sharman Networks' Kazaa, is closely affiliated with Altnet, a division of...
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Universal tries to expose Kazaa backers
News However, Nicholas argued that revealing Sharman's owners was important to establish the exact relationship between Sharman and subsequent respondent to the charges AltNet -- a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment - as he said the two...
[October 14, 2004, 11:35]
Kazaa exec defends sleeper software
News But in February, Brilliant Digital created a new subsidiary, called Altnet, with the ambitious goal of creating a new peer-to-peer network that piggybacked on Kazaa's wide distribution. Bermeister said in an interview on Monday that Altnet would...
[April 4, 2002, 10:00]
Kazaa fires back at Hollywood, labels
News A few industry executives were interested, but were "repeatedly instructed" not to pursue relationships with Sharman or Altnet by the Recording Industry Association of America and other trade groups, attorneys for Sharman said.
[January 28, 2003, 7:56]
Sharman case back in court
News He pointed out that much of the evidence seized during the raid was from Altnet, a subsidiary of BDE, which wasn't named in the Anton Pillar order as a target. The lawyer also raised the issue that the Anton Pillar order had the effect of seizing...
[February 20, 2004, 14:25]
Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa
News The Brilliant network is based on a piece of software called "Altnet Secureinstall", which is bundled with the Kazaa software. Brilliant has created a new company for the peer-to-peer service, called Altnet.
[April 2, 2002, 9:21]
Kazaa, Morpheus conceding defeat
News According to those documents filed 1 April, Blastoise -- operating under the name Joltid -- licensed the FastTrack technology to a Brilliant Digital subsidiary called Altnet, whose software contains the core of a new peer-to-peer network.
[May 23, 2002, 9:19]
Paid content comes to Kazaa
News But as Altnet prepares to go live, Bermeister said he was committed to repairing any ill feelings in the Kazaa community, which will serve as the service's core. Brilliant Digital's and Altnet's sudden appearance sparked criticism among a growing...
[May 20, 2002, 8:54]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News Altnet’s patented top search technology does allow it to monitor DRM wrapped files that it makes available or sells to Kazaa users, but this in no way translates to an ability to track, identify and block any of the hundreds of millions of digital...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
How to uninstall Brilliant's software
News Executives from Brilliant Digital and Kazaa's parent company say people can uninstall the Brilliant Digital or Altnet software from their computers without interfering with the Kazaa program itself. Brilliant Digital Entertainment quietly installs...
[April 4, 2002, 10:51]
ActiveX add-on makes file-swappers pay
News Although similar services already exist -- such as Altnet, which is used by Kazaa -- BluFilter will be supplied free to P2P companies. An application designed to help legitimise content on existing P2P applications such as Kazaa and BearShare is...
[August 7, 2003, 14:35]
Hackers turn tables on file-swapping firms
News In Altnet's case, the add-on promises to turn users' computers into links in a new for-profit peer-to-peer network. The record companies had their Napster, and the stream of file-swapping companies that followed.
[April 25, 2002, 13:53]
