Grokster

Grokster Ltd. is a software company specialising in person to person packages. The company is privately owned and has its registered office in Nevis, West Indies. One of the products that it has released is a peer-to-peer file sharing program for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The product is similar in look and feel to KaZaA which is marketed by Sharman Networks.

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There are two major networks for file sharing, FastTrack and Gnutella. KaZaA and Grokster are based on the FastTrack P2P file-sharing system, and share a common network.The Gnutella network is accessed through Bearshare, Gnucleus, LimeWire, Morpheus, Phex, Shareaza, and other similar programs. It has been estimated that 90% of files shared on Grokster are downloaded illegally. http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=29-Mar-2005&segNum=1&mediaPref=WM&getUnderwriting=1 But, empirical evidence suggests that such downloads have not substantially affected the retail sales of music, videos, and other forms of intellectual property.http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/FileSharing.pdf

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