Mr. Zennstrom said that his software, while it might be used for music now, was designed as a generic program for the exchange of files.
They contend that the free exchange of files online may be inevitable, so media companies might as well get on board.
Patients, primarily from tier 2 and 3 towns, receive a password to a website which enables communication with their doctor and an exchange of files after returning home.
A password-secured server was set up for the exchange of files, with only short excerpts from interviews shared across sites to protect participant anonymity.
CHES Survey on the other hand, cannot connect to the database as it is in the untrusted zone and can only communicate with CHES PRO via an XML interface, e.g., through the exchange of files.
But many questions remain for the competitors, like whether the technology is sufficiently developed to permit secure and simple exchanges of music files and whether the companies can settle contractual headaches, like securing publishing rights for the musical works.
This is very useful to support a phone or video conversation about a collection of trees tp overcome the need for repeated exchanges of tree files on a shared folder together with round trips with the users' separate – hence unsynchronized – tree visualization software.
For its part, Napster has countered that it is not easy to prevent the exchange of copyright files without also stopping the exchange of authorized copyright music.
Napster is struggling, too, in light of a court decision earlier this year that required it to prevent the exchange of copyrighted files owned by the major record companies.
In its defense, Napster argued its service was used not just for the exchange of copyrighted files, and that, given its broader applications, should not be shut down.
