Just found this article

[Theinfamousone]

http://www.techinv.com/directconnect-edonkey-kazaa/

Copyright 2001 says it all.

Anyone know what they were talking about when they said Kazaa was working with the RIAA to make a subscription service? Looks like things have changed since then.

[cheapprick]

Wasn't that the original take on Altnet?

[mojo-ris-in]

:devil After Napster was shut down there were several articles about Kazaa taking up the mantle. In a few of those articles Kazzaa officials publicly stated that they were working on a commercial version of Kazaa that would pay royalties to artists for downloads. They never released how they were going to do that and between Sharman entering the scene and the realization that the RIAA was not interested in a "legal" Kazaa not to mention the BSA and MPAA also making rumblings about lost profits, I guess the idea got scuttled. Or maybe there was no truth to that to begin with as was just released as a smoke screen to try and convince these organizations to give them breathing room.

[EvilHamsterOfDeath]

kazaa is now just payying the riaa the big bucks to lay off lol

[MoonMan]

Morpheus has a unique way of sending the royalities to artists.. with that CintoA technology which supposedly raps music so you can only listen to it a certain number of times (whatever the artist deems fit I believe) and then you have to pay. Oh and you can't listen to it outside of Morpheus.

I guess that's what people get for using such a shit client anyway.

[Lamourlady]

i believe the Riaa won't use any of the present p2p.
then they would have a middle man.
and that would take away from their greedy little paws.
they will eventually create their own p2p, after they're done "pwning" everyone. (or so they think)
basturds!

[Theinfamousone]

Yep, well, I've said it before, but if the RIAA did make their own P2P network, they could cram it full of so many ads and spyware and altnet, and sell people's processing power (like UD) and email addresses and whatever else they can cook up, then made it SUPER awesome, and offered high quality downloads and faster servers, it would make more money than Kazaa has ever dreamed, and it would help them advertise, because in a lot cases it works better than the radio. Maybe they have thought of this too, and are just waiting for Kazaa to get shut down.

Or, maybe they thought of it way back when Napster was around, and they actually own Kazaa (or bought them out calling themselves Sharman, I mean I know I've never heard of Sharman before, which seems unlikely being that they must be a multi-million dollar company to be able to buy out Kazaa that easily.) And Kazaa is taking up 30% of my P4's processing power, I wouldn't be surprised if they had all of our computers working for some corporation like Microsoft. They never put any money into the GUI. Any new improvement is just to appease people like making it filter viruses, and on occasion we get more spyware, yay!

Gotta love that Bonzi Buddy, and Save NOW! And of course the bit rates are capped so low that people will still buy CDs.

Makes a WHOLE lot of sense when you look at it that way doesn't it?!

And maybe that explains why it's gone 2 years without the RIAA "sueing it". And when they finally did (which was 4 or 5 months ago), they are just playing games to keep up appearances.