{"id":1066,"date":"2007-03-08T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/03\/08\/janus-friis-turns-into-janus-friisky\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T22:50:27","slug":"janus-friis-turns-into-janus-friisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/03\/08\/janus-friis-turns-into-janus-friisky\/","title":{"rendered":"Janus Friis turns into Janus Friisky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image1067\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/Friis.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"Friis.jpg\" \/>I know that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Web 2.0 or anything like that &#8212; apart from possibly illustrating how a guy who used to help people download copyright-infringing music files can become a Hollywood-sized celebrity, complete with airborne scandal &#8212; but I couldn&#8217;t help noticing that Janus Friis of Skype and Joost fame was discovered recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailonsunday.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/showbiz\/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=439837&amp;in_page_id=1773\">trying to join<\/a> the Mile-High Club with his paramour, Christina Knudsen, step-daughter of Bond actor Roger Moore. The ever-tactful and tasteful Nick Carr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/flying_virgin.php\">refers to<\/a> this as Mr. Friis trying to start a new &#8220;peer-to-peer network&#8221; with Ms. Knudsen, a line I wish I had come up with. Blogger Pat Phelan, meanwhile, notes that the pair might have consummated their relationship but flight attendants stopped them <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.roam4free.ie\/friis-gets-frisky\/\">Joost in time.<\/a> (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/lucafiligheddu.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/janus-friis-in-spotlight.html\">Luca Filigheddu<\/a>). Incidentally, the Great Dane&#8217;s real name appears to be Janus Friis Degnbol, at least according to the recent statement of settlement in the Kazaa lawsuit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryfox.com\/docs\/ClassNoticeForKazaaSettlement.pdf\">pdf link<\/a>). <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Web 2.0 or anything like that &#8212; apart from possibly illustrating how a guy who used to help people download copyright-infringing music files can become a Hollywood-sized celebrity, complete with airborne scandal &#8212; but I couldn&#8217;t help noticing that Janus Friis of Skype and Joost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/03\/08\/janus-friis-turns-into-janus-friisky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Janus Friis turns into Janus Friisky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}