German Twitter clone aids TV show piracy
Frazr, a German-language clone of online messaging service Twitter, has not been growing fast enough to suit its founders.
Its solution: Partner with a company named Onlinetvrecorder, that plays in the legal gray-zone by allowing people to make free recordings of broadcasts from German TV stations, P2P Blog reports.
It works like this: OTR users can get updates about their favorite TV shows via Frazr. If they sign up for Frazr and send a couple messages, they’ll… Continue Reading
Samwers bankrolled Facebook clone, now Twitter clone
The Samwer brothers, the well-known European trio of entrepreneurs, have invested in Frazr, an exact duplicate of Twitter.
They have thus embarked on a reputation of backing blatant rip-offs of successful U.S. companies. They backed Studi-VZ, the Facebook in Germany, for example, in 2005, shortly after Facebook became a major success.
See the images below to see how similar Frazr is to Twitter. Even the question at the top of the pages is same. Here’s a translation… Continue Reading