Michael Weiss, Morpheus CEO interview

I was met Michael Weiss on April Fools day, no joke. He was on the panel right after mine @ Digital Hollywood, and I got to chat with him a bit inbetween. For those of you who don’t know, Mike is a very influential guy in the p2p/file sharing space, having once hoisted the title of Most Popular File Sharing Software. You have got to admire what Mike is doing, it’s easy for us to sit back and say “screw the RIAA,” but he is the one in the trenches actually working to legitimize our space. He is the one, alongside the EFF, writing checks to fight MGM v Grokster. He (unfortunately for him) is the one who had Ted Cohen on his panel and had to listen to such drivel as “how dare the consumer get used to downloading music for free. how dare they.”

Mike was nice enough to grant us an interview where he details his exploits to the delight of Zeropaid readers everywhere. It was a great interview all over, but to me the surprise important part was at the very end:

“We understand that users do not like bundled software in general and we are moving to a new “P2P search monetization” strategy similar to what Google, Overture and others do for web searches. Once we have this fully functioning, we will no longer need to rely on bundles to defer our costs for providing a free version to our users.”

Can’t wait to see that one Mike. If it’s as unobtrusive and effective as Google has managed to be, well, that would be impressive.

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