Kazaa pays 100$ million and goes legit

[FeelGood]

File sharing giant, Kazaa recently agreed to pay the sum of $100 million for damages to the music industry, to avoid further legal actions that have plagued Kazaa for some time now. This follows in conjunction with a report released saying that some 20 billion music tracks had been downloaded illegally through their service in just the last year.

"We have won another battle in an ongoing war, said John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI). "We move forward with a spring in our step."

Kazaa has now announced that it will follow suit like the once big media giant Napster and offer only legal downloads in which users must pay for in order to download.

Source:
BBC News

[clevich]

what a money grabber. It's not like the money is going towards the lables that lost sales over illegal distribution.

[FeelGood]

exactly my thoughts. how would they evenly and fairly spread the large some of money around to all the record labels who lost sales because of the file sharring program.

what a bunch of bullshit.

[Chewy]

one company dies another 5 will take its place

[FeelGood]

newsgroups and private mIRC channels until the day i die.

never liked file sharring programs.

[vaporize]

emule/limewire/torrent ftw

[Scarface]

Does this mean my pirated pay version is useless?

[FeelGood]

Originally Posted by Scarface

Does this mean my pirated pay version is useless?

im assuming so.

download limewire or ask me and ill send the cracked full version over.

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by eighty5

im assuming so.

download limewire or ask me and ill send the cracked full version over.

Yes please

MSN: [email protected]

[FeelGood]

added brutha.

msg me so i can find you.

[dabbler]

kazaa is the shittiest p2p out there

[zarlon]

^ i'll give an amen to that! slsk, or torrents ALL the way. i don't mind donating a $5 a month to soulseek, it gives you wicked priority too.