Vij also stresses that since these groups are typically so small in number, Pointera-enabled file sharing is defensible under the fair use provisions of copyright laws. What this means is you can just hit play from your hard disk instead of hitting copy. If you're simply playing that's the same as going to someone's house and watching a movie and is still covered by fair use under the copyright laws. Currently, the only place to see the Pointera Search Engine, running is on the Spinfrenzy Web Site, which lets users share MP3 files and video clips. The Pointera technology is a business application, which we've never had before.
Groups of people can exchange files and work together.
Clients have index servers which Pointera runs and if you're a portal site you have the ability to search against that index server. This index server contains indexes, which are essentially generated by all the other servers running on the PCs in a particular work group. A portal site uses Pointera software to exchange files to work directly with individual PCs. The Pointera technology works on a per query basis, and the company plans to collect a fraction of a cent royalty from participating portal sites each time a user does a search. This is very different than the hierarchical architecture found on the Web today.