"We don't do piracy," claims Michael Weiss, CEO of StreamCast, the parent company of file-sharing network, Morpheus. Of course, any new technology involving the entertainment industry and piracy always results to law-suits, court-orders, and what all. It's happened in the past, and now it's happening again. The entertainment industry is losing revenues due to file-sharing/P2P networks, and who are they blaming? The file-sharing networks themselves.

Michael Weiss doesn't believe Morpheus or any other file-sharing network for that matter is a pirate company. He's not against the entertainment industry, not that he wants to, in fact, Weiss is looking for business relationships with them rather than law-suits. In this interesting installment of Larry's World, host Larry Magid talks to Michael Weiss, CEO of StreamCast networks, parent company of Morpheus, about file-sharing, piracy, the entertainment industry and the distribution mechanism of P2P.

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Michael Weiss is the President & CEO of StreamCast Networks (the parent company of file-sharing network Morpheus) and CEO of its subsidiary MusicCity Network. Previously, Weiss has founded WebRadio.com and has held several positions at Sirius Publishing, Inc. He holds with him more than 16 years of experience in the home video industry and has been a keynoter and guest speaker at numerous Internet, entertainment, and broadcasting conferences.

Resources:

• Michael Weiss' full bio
• Wikipedia entry: Morpheus
• Wikipedia entry MGM Studios VS Grokster - full details

This program is from the Larry's World series.

For Team ITC:

• Description editor: Sid Yadav
• Post-production audio engineer: Paul Figgiani