From their own website:
Intellectual Property
Forgent has intellectual horsepower that sets it apart from the competition. With 32 patents designed to improve the quality of video communications, Forgent continues to lead the industry with technological innovation. Forgent is committed to developing its intellectual property to protect its investment in research and development as well exploring potential revenue streams for its existing patent portfolio.
I love this bottom part. "Exploring potential revenue streams for its existing patent portfolio." So basically they are even publically annoucing that they will explore options with current patents to exploit any revenue they can from them.
I've been doing some research, and I've been unable to find anything on the subject. With the lack of information available about Sharman Network and Nikki Hemming (CEO of Sharman), I think this looks like an attempt by the RIAA to purchase Kazaa and shut down Morpheus (the largest group of file sharing members). They then release a new version of Kazaa stating 'Morpheus members join the new Kazaa network', which also apparently has the ability to not only include spyware, but also snitchware (where it will know what you are downloading and possibly report back to those manufacturers or artists for legal procedings). I don't know what Kazaa originally included for spyware, adware, or snitchware, but I know that Morpheus only included adware. It evens appears that whoever (I have no proof of this being related to the RIAA, but I would think that they would be smart enough to cover their tracks and hire this one person, Nikki Hemming, to be their scapegoat) made the changes didn't think that StreamCast would change over to the Gneutella protocol. I think the RIAA has decided that legal battles are taking too long and going nowhere, so maybe they have decided to take matters into their own hands and are trying to shut down the P2P networks by buying out certain providers and then forcing other clients to be unable to connect. Sounds like something the slime at the RIAA would do.
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From their own website: Intellectual Property Forgent has intellectual horsepower that sets it apart from the competition. With 32 patents designed to improve the quality of video communications, Forgent continues to lead the industry with technological innovation. Forgent is committed to developing its intellectual property to protect its investment in research and development as well exploring potential revenue streams for its existing patent portfolio. I love this bottom part. "Exploring potential revenue streams for its existing patent portfolio." So basically they are even publically annoucing that they will explore options with current patents to exploit any revenue they can from them.
I've been doing some research, and I've been unable to find anything on the subject. With the lack of information available about Sharman Network and Nikki Hemming (CEO of Sharman), I think this looks like an attempt by the RIAA to purchase Kazaa and shut down Morpheus (the largest group of file sharing members). They then release a new version of Kazaa stating 'Morpheus members join the new Kazaa network', which also apparently has the ability to not only include spyware, but also snitchware (where it will know what you are downloading and possibly report back to those manufacturers or artists for legal procedings). I don't know what Kazaa originally included for spyware, adware, or snitchware, but I know that Morpheus only included adware. It evens appears that whoever (I have no proof of this being related to the RIAA, but I would think that they would be smart enough to cover their tracks and hire this one person, Nikki Hemming, to be their scapegoat) made the changes didn't think that StreamCast would change over to the Gneutella protocol. I think the RIAA has decided that legal battles are taking too long and going nowhere, so maybe they have decided to take matters into their own hands and are trying to shut down the P2P networks by buying out certain providers and then forcing other clients to be unable to connect. Sounds like something the slime at the RIAA would do.