Kazaa Is Back… Sort Of…
Kazaa has announced its official return to service, three years after its shutdown.
"However, like Pirate Bay and Napster, the service is in name only, with users being forced to pay for their music instead of trading tracks illegally… the new Kazaa will at first be available only in the United States," writes The Inquirer's Nick Farrell. "Its US customers will pay $20 per month and can download as many songs as they like."
"These songs, however, will be DRMed and in the WMA format, which will probably spell doom for the service in the long run… $20 a month wouldn't be a bad deal for unlimited downloads if the music wasn't DRMed and if users were able to play them on their iPods," notes ReadWriteWeb's Frederic Lardinois. "Given the competition that Kazaa is up against, we don't see a bright future for the service."
More here from GigaOM … more here from CNET … more here from NME … and more here from CrunchGear.
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