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Kazaa Backs Plan To Bill P2P Music Transfers

Posted by timothy on from the revenue-stream dept.

Darth Coder writes "From this article at The Age: Kazaa has thrown its weight behind a plan to start billing song swappers for their music downloads. The idea is to phase in a billing mechanism for peer to peer networks, such as Kazaa and Morpheus. 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."

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  1. Re:How is this any better...? by c0rruptc0d3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Frankly, I don't think that the record companies will go for this either, since there's no mention of DRM, and they have no assurace that you'll actually get what they produce instead of some modified version which they can't control and which might make them look bad." ....Too bad Britney Spears Christina Aguilera or any of that molded modeled prebuilt factory shrinkwrapped garbage the industry puts out already makes it look bad enough. :)

  2. Re:talk about shooting yourself in the foot. by juhaz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Real IRC networks (you know, internet relay chat) aren't under any kind of bombardment, or going anywhere.

    Stupid "warez" networks are, and GOOD RIDDANCE.