Kazaa to pay record groups $100m

[Psycho4Bud]

The record industry on Thursday said it had reached a legal settlement with Kazaa, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing service that is considered a major contributor to piracy.

The deal represents one of the biggest legal victories for the recording industry in its efforts to fight piracy.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14057703/

$100 mill..........damn, that's a hit!

[Big Calhoun]

May Torrents live forever.

In all my years involved with computers and the internet and whatnot, I still don't understand when these companies will learn that no one is going to shell out $15 for CRAP! Get some decent artists that produce real music and people will start buying again.

[Its a Plant]

Lol, good lord that is a big hit! I also will have to jump on the "torrent" fan wagon for a number of reasons. There are still plenty of quality artists out there, you just have to look past mainstream America and it's obsession with pop-country and that painful sound people call rap, and all that's inbetween. Most mainstream artists are crap, and continue to produce crap, and people still buy it because they don't know what else is out there. God help them. I just hope Lars Ulrich wasn't anywhere near the negotiations. Lol, get over it LARS! No one likes Metallica!

[SpiritLevel]

I hear kazaa is goin like napster

[Aaron385]

If you like um go see um in concert... thats how the artists make their money anyways. Besides.. live shows are freakn awsome.. and some arent much more expensive than the damn cds. :)

[Tokudai]

The record industry on Thursday said it had reached a legal settlement with Kazaa, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing service that is considered a major contributor to piracy.

The deal represents one of the biggest legal victories for the recording industry in its efforts to fight piracy.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14057703/

$100 mill..........damn, that's a hit!

I wonder if this means the users who downloaded off Kazaa are off the hook for any future responsibility/liability?

[Its a Plant]

If you like um go see um in concert... thats how the artists make their money anyways. Besides.. live shows are freakn awsome.. and some arent much more expensive than the damn cds. :)
That's the way to do it. Go see live shows, come home and download the torrents. Some of the lives shows I've seen and downloaded is easily the best music I've heard ever, purchased or not.

[dopesmoker]

I never used Kazaa. Its virus ridden. I stick to Limewire, after Winmx vanished

[weirdo79]

all p2p software is equally "virus ridden", and the networks are still up and doing fine.

Here, here to the torrents though! Leechers begone!

[afghooey]

Soulseek has always been my favorite. Limewire is a last resort.

[shoi]

im a fan of the torrents

bitcomet :D

[Treetops]

:D...