StreamCast Networks

Court-Appointed Expert to Select File-Sharing Copyright Filter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 29, 2007 - 10:21am.
Morpheus logo Los Angeles - A federal judge last week ordered that a court-appointed expert be put in place to determine the best means for StreamCast Networks, operator of the Morpheus file-sharing service, to block unauthorized downloads on its network.

StreamCast Adds Joost to Lawsuit Over Peer-to-Peer Technology

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 23, 2007 - 12:01pm.

San Francisco - Joost, the ad-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, has been added as a defendant to a year-old lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks over the rights to the service's underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, CNET News.com reported.

RIAA Settles Lawsuit Against StreamCast Networks Over Web Radio Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 22, 2005 - 9:40am.
Los Angeles -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has settled a lawsuit it filed against peer-to-peer file-sharing provider StreamCast Networks, which accused the company of making thousands of unauthorized copies of songs -- for an online radio service the company never launched, the Los Angeles Times reported. The settlement does not affect the major record labels' separate lawsuit against StreamCast and Grokster, another file-sharing network, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next week. StreamCast CEO Michael Weiss told The Times that the company accepted a "ridiculously low settlement offer" from the labels to end the "nuisance lawsuit." RIAA senior vice president Stanley Pierre-Louis told The Times, "We certainly were satisfied with where we ended up."