Kazaa also turning its life around, becoming legal music subscription service
By Darren Murph 
posted July 19th 2009 1:39AM
posted July 19th 2009 1:39AM
We must have missed the memo that informed us of the impending revival sweeping the illicit music landscape, but there's no denying its potency now. Just weeks after Napster and Pirate Bay decided to right the wrong and morph into legitimate music subscription services (or something of the sort, anyway), the infamous and all-but-forgotten Kazaa has evidently decided to do the same. According to "sources close to the company," the site is expected to officially exit beta and begin a $20 per month unlimited download service as early as next week, though details beyond that are few and far between. On the surface, it seems as if it'll be shooting itself in the foot from day one by charging a Jackson per month, but hopefully that includes a little something extra that we aren't privy to yet. At any rate, it looks like your illegal acquisition options are slowly dwindling down, but hey, it's not like a little consolidation ever hurt anybody, right?
Why is Kaaza still around in 2009? I remember the bad old days of when it used to send my mother's computer virus after virus after virus. Hell, even Kaaza's website alone would send her viruses! Last time I even remember using this was like 2003, and even then, I was in 6-7th grade. I'm just starting to become a senior in high school. Kaaza, just die!
Havent Used Kazaa since I discovered Torrents back in 2004...lol
still mad about Pirate bay....I mean I use isohunt and puretna alot and both are owned by pirate bay....what will happen to them??
What will happen is anybody's guess, we'll have to wait a month and see I think.
Nothing wrong with mininova, right?..
I love the Limewire fanboys and the brainwashed sheep that have been manipulated in to paying for music. For the former, enjoy your virii and single song downloads. For the latter, I'm glad your supporting all the starving artists and helping them buy their next Hummer. lul.
I used to work at a large ISP, it was so funny whenever I had to explain to someone why they are getting sued. They always said they heard about it but thought "It won't happen to me!".
What country are you in? :o
I'm in the US. Land of the MPAA/RIAA.
wtf i thought kazaa died like years ago lol
Yea agree, Who uses P2P anymore, I mean that was dead years ago. Kazaa will EPIC fail! crash die and burn like all other p2p programs, people get with it, its all torrents baby
Because Torrent isn't P2P, right?
Those poor soccer moms out there that will be made to pay the fee so 13 yo Cindy can download the next rad song. Its OK soccer moms, I'll be there for you......just send Cindy to Staceys for the next couple of nights
screw iTunes, Amazon! I'm getting Kazaa! yea!
Limewire will also soon be announcing the same sort of all-you-can-eat model for music subscription for less than $20 per month. They have been in negotiations with all the major record labels for some time now, but have been having some trouble closing the deal.
Kazaa is a joke, they are nice when it first out when torrent wasn't common back then, preview music to see if is fake, since connection back then was mostly dial up for home user. But now kazaa is getting near stone age due to torrent.
Napster, WinMX and Kazaa were kings,..oh well, Shareaza still has some life in it, torrents rule for music n popular movies, but P2P still wins for porn LOL