I bet you were not expecting this but Kazaa is turning legit too. We’ve just seen the Pirate Bay getting sold and moving away from the illegal downloads business and now we hear that Kazaa is also considering taking the same righteous path. The site will offer a $20 per month plan that will let you download as much music as you want. The service will be available sometime next week, as soon as it exits beta. What do think folks? With all the music services that are available around the Internet, would you pay that monthly subscription? How much music will you be downloading every month? Will we be able to access Kazaa from our smartphones? We’ll be giving you more information as soon as Kazaa will come out with the official announcement.

via cnet

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Now here is quite the unforunate story — Apparantly, a woman by the name of Jammie Thomas was found guilty back in 2007 for sharing 24 songs over Kazaa and was then ordered to pay $222,000.

Well, the woman was put on trial yet again this year at a Minnesota court and was again found guilty but this time ordered to pay an astounding $1,920,000 in damages. Thats a full $80,000 per song!

To stand unbiased on the situation, Mrs. Thomas was issued a cease-and-desist letter by the RIAA, which she refused to do. So remember boys and girls, crime never pays, even if it involves the non-violent act of downloading a couple songs.

Read (Gizmodo)

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