Kazaa Set To End Its Days Of Free Music

[mEtho]

The world's most popular song-swapping network, Kazaa, has thrown its weight behind a plan to start billing song swappers for their music downloads.
The proposal, which could finally end the days of the free lunch for millions of music fans, has been put to big US record labels at the same time as a new legitimate version of the former file-swapping giant Napster is launched in the US.
The idea is to phase in a billing mechanism for peer to peer networks, such as Kazaa and Morpheus, that allow users to copy music directly from each other's hard drives.

Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill.
With the success of Apple's iTunes and the launch of the new legal Napster in the US this week, the five big record labels are finally getting behind online music distribution. But they are still turning their backs on the peer to peers seen to support widespread music piracy.
Kazaa now hopes the music industry will forget past grievances and tap into the cleaned up versions of the networks that already have millions of users, rather than build their own networks from scratch.
"The whole effort here is to go where the consumers are, to convert all that energy to selling licensed music," said Marty Lafferty, president of the Distributed Computing Industry Association.
Nikki Hemming, the Sydney-based chief executive of Sharman Networks, which runs Kazaa, said the business model offered "great hope for the entertainment industry".
The five big record labels are yet to respond to the proposal.

Source: IRCSPY.COm

[Adster]

ohh well who uses kazaa for music anyway?

[SodiumChloride]

Don't worry mEtho, you'll get your free music if you continue to read these forums and stay informed

[Adster]

yep thats exactly right

[Jayhawk]

once i joined this forum i stopped using kazaa and that was in march

[dingoBaby]

Does anyone think that wasn't Sharman's intention from the get go?

[mEtho]

Originally posted by SodiumChloride@12 October 2003 - 06:51
Don't worry mEtho, you'll get your free music if you continue to read these forums and stay informed

I Use This for my music



i was just wondering
how can they end music sharing of kazaa, i mean is this possible!!

[Adster]

once i joined this forum i stopped using kazaa and that was in march

isn't it ironic

join a Kazaa forum and never use kaza again becasue of it

[Jayhawk]

Originally posted by Adster@12 October 2003 - 07:02

once i joined this forum i stopped using kazaa and that was in march

isn't it ironic

join a Kazaa forum and never use kaza again becasue of it

yep isnt that weird oh well i am not complaining