Former industry outcast Kazaa has finally submitted to the might of the music giants and gone legal. The p2p network has also paid $100m to the recording industry in an out of court settlement. This follows on from, perhaps, the killer blow for Kazaa last year when it was found liable of authorising copyright infringement by the Australian courts (see our earlier post).
According to the BBC report, $100m represents half the value of the legal download market in Europe, which shows just how powerful a medium Kazaa had become for illegal file sharing. Industry leaders are celebrating another scalp – and certainly the avenues for obtaining free music downloads continue to be blocked up.
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