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Fabian Toader, an immigrant from Romania and a Microsoft Programmer who lives in Redmond, WA, says he wrote Kazaa's computer code in 2000 when he did freelance work for Sharman Networks in Romania. He is suing for $25 million in damages.

 

Sharman: "The work done by Fabian Toader on early versions of the Kazaa Media Desktop software was done under a work-for-hire agreement that expressly states that Kazaa B.V. owned all rights to any work related to the development of the software."

Toader insists that such a contract was never made. He cites copyright laws in Romania and US which state that he is the lawful owner of the program. Sharman's lawyer calls this action on his part a "shakedown."

 

Source: ShortNews.

 

:P a microsoft programmer wrote a program, which is used to share illegal copies of microsoft products.....nows thats irony :lol:

 

And now he wants to sue Sharman Networks :lol:

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I don't care for Sharman Networks either but its ironic that Microsoft try to stop piracy...and here is one of their employees who helped to develop a program to aid piracy....

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Well an employee of AOL, the guy that made Winamp, wrote GNUTELLA while he was working for them under their radar.

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Well an employee of AOL, the guy that made Winamp, wrote GNUTELLA while he was working for them under their radar.

Justin Frankel? Whoa.

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ICant Believe That It Is Vary Odd That A Dude From Microsoft Wrote Kazaa. I'll Never Look At Kazaa The Same Way Agian.

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ICant Believe That It Is Vary Odd That  A Dude From Microsoft Wrote Kazaa. I'll Never Look At Kazaa The Same Way Agian.

Why should that make any difference?

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Well an employee of AOL, the guy that made Winamp, wrote GNUTELLA while he was working for them under their radar.

Justin Frankel? Whoa.

Yeah, here's the Rolling Stone article about him.

 

The World's Most Dangerous Geek

Ha ha ha, he got his xbox to say seXbox!

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