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Kazaa making a comeback, this time legit

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 19 Jul 2009 8:56 User comments (8)

Kazaa making a comeback, this time legit

Kazaa, one of the most notorious P2P software of yesteryear is set to make a comeback in 2009, this time as a legal subscription music service.
Sources speaking to Cnet say the rebirth could happen as soon as August and will turn the once infamous unauthorized downloading hub into a new subscription service with catalogs from the Big 4 labels.

Unlimited downloads will cost $20 USD a month and the store is expected to open with over a million tracks available.

Napster, the original file sharing site to feel the wrath of the record label, reopened as a legal music store in 2003.

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8 user comments

119.7.2009 23:33

Brilliant, people will be all over it.

220.7.2009 02:13

good price too.
*hopes for UK release*
*waits for bad news about DRM*

320.7.2009 06:20

2 Legit To Quit

420.7.2009 15:38

If there still using there old network this will fall flat.

520.7.2009 17:27

Pirate Bay & Kazaa, hi, welcome.
I'd like you to meet pay site Napster 2.0.

You guys should talk, i think you'll find something very interesting about Napster when they went legit and to a pay site.

620.7.2009 20:35

20$ a month unlimited is to much, 10-15$ would be better.

721.7.2009 00:41

I actually miss the FastTrack network.

It's too bad Sharman reconfigured it not to work anymore.

823.7.2009 07:24

Quote:
Napster, the original file sharing site to feel the wrath of the record label, reopened as a legal music store in 2003.
This whole article and the whole point in a nutshell.

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
20$ a month unlimited is to much, 10-15$ would be better.
Mate regardless of what price they set it would not matter because lower would always be better but they have to start somewhere.
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 23 Jul 2009 @ 7:26

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