Friday, April 1st 12:50 PM - 2:00 PM Track I: Next Generation P2P - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries Part II While the debate over legal issues in music and movie distribution of content continues, the P2P and distributed computing industry is making strides in taking its technologies into the mainstream. With many evolving solutions on the way from paid-for-pass-along along with various DRM solutions and advertiser based options - and now an active trade association for P2P exists to enhance the solutions in the marketplace - we are pleased to hold a standalone solutions session on the topic at Digital Hollywood. In this session we will attempt to go beyond the legal issues into the practical applications of P2P in the marketplace. P2P advocates make claim to a major share of the market that will play a central force in the future of the music and film industries. In this session, we will hear the case for P2P - its strengths and weaknesses. Derek Broes, Media/Entertainment Technology Convergence Group., Microsoft Corp. Marc Morgenstern, Vice President, Overpeer Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music Peter Kang, Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks: Entertainment industry veteran, Michael Weiss first joined StreamCast Networks, formerly known as MusicCity.com, as its President & CEO in April 2000. Weiss was responsible for re-positioning the company from an Internet radio provider into a peer-to-peer powerhouse and the world’s largest peer-to-peer consumer software provider. Under Weiss’ leadership, the company introduced the wildly popular "Morpheus" peer-to-peer file sharing software. Within 4 months of launch, "Morpheus" achieved legendary status: 20+ million users, # 1 most popular Internet software, over 1 million downloads weekly, 2 million daily users, and the # 1 most searched Internet subject. After taking the company to # 1 status, Weiss left the company in September 2001 when it relocated to Nashville, TN and co-founded ShareComm, Inc., a technology start-up venture. Previously, Weiss was founder of WebRadio.com and served as its Vice President & General Manager. WebRadio.com, a subsidiary of GEO Interactive Media Group, Ltd. (GIM:LSE), transmits terrestrial radio stations’ signals on-line through the innovative EMBLAZE "plug-in free" streaming media technology developed by GEO. WebRadio.com was valued at $441 million during Weiss’ tenure. Previously, Weiss was VP, Strategic Marketing for GEO. Prior to GEO, Weiss held several positions at Sirius Publishing, Inc from 1994 to 1998. As Vice President of Entertainment & Business Development, he negotiated and acquired the digital rights to movies and video programs from major motion picture studios, independent production companies and record labels and served as company spokesperson for its MovieCD product line. As VP, Marketing, he played a key role in Sirius' trajectory as a major player in the multimedia industry--growing annual company sales from $100,000 to $22 million within nine months. Previously Weiss spent 16 years in the home video industry. Rick Doherty is a co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group; a two-decade old Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains a guest columnist. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high performance tooling and consumer electronics industry sectors along with dozens of international patents. During Doherty's 32 year career he has been Director of the Urban Vehicle Design Group at Pratt Institute, an engineer for Data General Corp., Chief Engineer of Lourdes Industries, Inc., founder and President of Optronic Labs and since 1983, co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group. There, he directs laboratory testing of technologies, products and services, oversees publication of the Envisioneering Newsletter, market research reports and provides senior executive counsel on market development and intellectual property protection, portfolio management and licensing opportunities. Doherty's prime focus is on researching and articulating the impact of advanced digital technologies, services, products, industry initiatives and standards efforts on consumers, industry and society. Doherty is a 31 year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is active with its Biomedical Engineering, Solid State Circuits Society , Consumer Electronics Society, Broadcast Engineering, Magnetic Technology Society, Technology & Social Policy and other I.E.E.E. societies. This is his eleventh year as a planning director for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Doherty is also a member of the Society for Information Display, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and many other technology & professional business industry associations. In addition, Doherty has been a co-chair of, and presently sits on several cross industry standards associations and technical working groups, spanning consumer digital electronics, communications, digital media and computing architecture definition groups. He is called upon by the industry to organize and chair panels at trade conferences and technical symposia more than a dozen times each year. Amongst his many industry awards, Doherty has been cited by the International Television Association for his many years of technology coverage of digital video design and engineering trends, and is the writer most cited by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for detailed features on the evolution of America's Digital TV system. Doherty also assisted Dr. Richard Feynman, NASA and Congressional researchers in the Shuttle Challenger accident investigation at the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and many NASA contractor sites. In 2003, Doherty was nominated to and accepted a multi-year position on the Presidential Medal of Technology Award Selection Committee, reporting to the White House and Department of Commerce. Acting as an independent resource on the impact of digital and internet technologies on the consumer, society and business, Doherty is quoted frequently for his opinions on new technologies by CNN, CNBC, Fox News and by numerous American and international industry trade and daily business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Doherty is married and resides in Seaford, NY with his wife and two daughters.