Grokster in Talks to Be Bought By Mashboxx

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 19, 2005 @03:30AM from the potentials-to-be dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The Supreme Court's ruling in Grokster has driven the P2P company to enter talks with Mashboxx, 'an upstart that is attempting to establish a legal peer-to-peer music company, according to people familiar with the matter,' the Wall Street Journal reports. Mashboxx would let users sample free but charge for downloads. The WSJ adds: 'To encourage the file-sharing companies and their users to go legitimate, the labels are seriously considering dropping such claims, some record executives say. In fact, say people close to the talks, Grokster is negotiating a settlement with the RIAA. The RIAA and Grokster declined to comment.'"

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Silly Names by L.+VeGas · 2005-09-19 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Can anyone explain to me why P2P companies / applications have such silly names?

Grokster
Napster
Kazaa
Mashboxx (now with two x's!)
EDonkey
etc.

Say what you will about Microsoft, at least their name makes sense.

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