RSSKazaa joins the ranks of law-abiding P2P services
By Tim Conneally | Published July 20, 2009, 11:15 AM
All P2P networks must go "establishment" someday, and today another formerly popular P2P service rended by courtroom battles announced it has turned around. Like P2P pioneer Napster did six years ago, this morning, Kazaa (now with just one capital letter) has come back as www.kazaa.com, a subscription-based music service with all of the "big four" major labels in its corner.
For $19.98 a month, Kazaa.com users get unlimited music downloads on up to three PCs, and unlimited ringtone downloads on one mobile phone, but that's it. The service does not support portability and tracks cannot be moved onto MP3 players.
"While these are not the best of economic times, we have every confidence that our marketing and affinity with our customers will have us punching well above our weight in the market," said Kazaa.com CEO Kevin Bermeister.
The re-launch of the former "KaZaA" comes on the heels of the news that popular torrent site The Pirate Bay will also be re-launching as a legal service.
I see now they actually expect me to PAY for the uselessness that is KaZaa. I stopped using KaZaa years ago...when it became dangerous/infectious. Why should I subject myself to all that again? and to actually pay for it? LMFAO
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|Why do people insist.. ok nm that.. I get the trying to monetize the glory of an old "brand" such as it where..
What I do not get, is how they can get the PRODUCT so wrong? Rhapsody, Napster and the Zune store have their flaws .. but for the subscription set the value vs this offering is just.. too far off the mark for a new entity jumping into the ring?
And ring tones? really? are those the key differentiators? Has there been a clambering from the masses for unlimited ring tone downloads for 20$ a month?
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|I will be shocked if this does anything. :)
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|It's just you... working fine for me here.
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|Haha...
...and away they go, into that black night, never to return.
Buh-bye!
(EDIT: Is BN horribly broken in FF 3.5.1, or is it just me?)
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|(EDIT: Is BN horribly broken in FF 3.5.1, or is it just me?)
If you mean having to wait for a script timer to unlock
FF, reload the page, see an edit timer counting
down from 47, then, yeah, could be.
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|BN has been good for me so far on firefox 3.5.1
Now my school website on the other hand, not so much.
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|Its not broken, they just redid the site again to mess with your head!
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