Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:57 pm
I'm curious as to who owns the rights to Xband now...
Catapult Ent. was bought by Mpath Interactive Inc. and as such was the subject of a lawsuit at the time of it's sale/Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing.
http://www.stblaw.com/content/publications/pub399.pdf
During that time as well, Mpath (as Mplayer) had licensed it's technologies to Sega for Heat.net.. and we all know that Sega licensed Catapult/Xband technologies for the Netlink..
But then later Heat.net folded.. Mplayer was sold to Gamespy (who in turn later was bought by IGN Entertainment) by HearMe (who had spun off from Mpath, and was later bought by PalTalk)..
But some of the MPlayer's technologies were sold to 4Anything.com, too...
And then there's Steve Perlman.. the above "Perlman" cited in the the court documents I found.. He's a multi-talented man.. and still working in the video game industry with OnLive..
http://www.rearden.com/people/index.html
Anyhow, just an exploration through that, as I find it to be a tangled web..
Catapult Ent. was bought by Mpath Interactive Inc. and as such was the subject of a lawsuit at the time of it's sale/Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing.
http://www.stblaw.com/content/publications/pub399.pdf
During that time as well, Mpath (as Mplayer) had licensed it's technologies to Sega for Heat.net.. and we all know that Sega licensed Catapult/Xband technologies for the Netlink..
But then later Heat.net folded.. Mplayer was sold to Gamespy (who in turn later was bought by IGN Entertainment) by HearMe (who had spun off from Mpath, and was later bought by PalTalk)..
But some of the MPlayer's technologies were sold to 4Anything.com, too...
And then there's Steve Perlman.. the above "Perlman" cited in the the court documents I found.. He's a multi-talented man.. and still working in the video game industry with OnLive..
http://www.rearden.com/people/index.html
Anyhow, just an exploration through that, as I find it to be a tangled web..