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Sharman offices raided by piracy investigators
News Music Industry Piracy Investigations this morning raided the offices of P2P companies Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, along with the homes of key executives and several ISPs. In addition to the offices of Sharman Networks and...
[February 6, 2004, 8:35]
Sharman challenges raids' validity
News In addition to the respondents, Anton Pillar orders were also served on Brilliant Digital Entertainment and its owner Kevin Burmeister, the University of Queensland, Monash University and the University of New South Wales, Telstra, Akamai...
[February 10, 2004, 7:25]
Kazaa, Morpheus conceding defeat
News According to documents filed with federal regulators in the United States, a company called Blastoise -- owned and operated by the Kazaa founders -- has already licensed the FastTrack technology to a Los Angeles company named Brilliant Digital...
[May 23, 2002, 9:19]
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. Altnet's relationship with Kazaa emerged a year...
[June 2, 2003, 7:36]
Kazaa loses court battle
News Proceedings were dismissed against respondents Sharman License Holdings, Sharman chief technology officer Philip Morle, Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet CTO Anthony Rose. Justice Wilcox also ordered respondents Sharman Networks, LEF...
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa
News Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a California-based digital advertising technology company, has been distributing its 3D ad technology along with the Kazaa software since late last fall. But in a federal securities filing Monday, the company...
[April 2, 2002, 9:21]
Paid content comes to Kazaa
News The move is fraught with controversy as the first application of Altnet, a service from Kazaa partner Brilliant Digital Entertainment that came to light amid a Web privacy storm last month. After weeks of watching for signs of Altnet's awakening, a...
[May 20, 2002, 8:54]
How to uninstall Brilliant's software
News Brilliant Digital Entertainment quietly installs its own software with every copy of the Kazaa file-swapping software. The Brilliant Digital software, which is being progressively distributed over the next few weeks, can later be remotely "turned...
[April 4, 2002, 10:51]
What's hidden in your hard drive?
News The software, from Brilliant Digital Entertainment, came with the popular Kazaa file-swapping program. I'm not an extremist," said Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor.
[April 18, 2002, 15:48]
File-sharing networks go into battle
News In a first step, the Brilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Altnet on Thursday licensed its TrueNames patent to its biggest partner, Sharman Networks, owner of Kazaa Media Desktop. But as Altnet launches its ambitious new service, parent...
[June 6, 2003, 8:31]
Kazaa exec defends sleeper software
News This software, from a California company called Brilliant Digital Entertainment, has been installed on potentially tens of millions of computers. Nothing from (Brilliant Digital) has been downloaded which breaches Sharman's or industry standards of...
[April 4, 2002, 10:00]
Kazaa firm banned from suing record labels
News Altnet, a content distribution service that is a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, is not party to the Sharman suit. Sharman countersued in February, alleging that the entertainment industry violated the Sherman Act by conspiring to...
[July 8, 2003, 14:56]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News Today's unrivalled file-swapping leader, Sharman Networks' Kazaa, is closely affiliated with Altnet, a division of Brilliant Digital Entertainment that seeds file-swapping search results with authorised files such as games or music.
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Greeting card virus brings bad tidings
News In April, Kazaa users inundated Brilliant Digital Entertainment with complaints when they discovered that the most recent version of the company's 3D ad technology software, which is bundled with the Kazaa file-sharing program, contained licensing...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Brilliant: Nothing to worry about
News Kevin Bermeister's Brilliant Digital Entertainment has become a household name in Internet circles almost overnight. People around the Internet have been bitterly critical, accusing Brilliant of installing software on their machines without their...
[April 5, 2002, 8:53]
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]
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]
Freenet founder launches business P2P product
News The technology concept has also been adopted, albeit with a different business model, by a company called Brilliant Digital Entertainment, which is distributing its own peer-to-peer content distribution software called Altnet along with the...
[May 1, 2002, 12:46]
Danger: PCs under attack from free software
News The program, from a little-known start-up called Brilliant Digital Entertainment, had the potential to turn people's PCs into nodes for an ambitious commercial network that could host and disseminate music, ads or other content from different...
[June 24, 2002, 16:06]
How Sony failed to Connect, again
News Wiser is leaving to join a Silicon Valley-based digital home entertainment firm called Building B, according to a source familiar with his plans. Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions...
[June 1, 2006, 11:00]
