The BBC are reporting that Kazaa is on its way to becoming a Napster-esque legal downloading service:

File-sharing site Kazaa will become a legal music download service following a series of high profile legal battles.

The peer-to-peer network has also agreed to pay $100m (£53m) in damages to the record industry.

There's basically no other useful information in the article other than the usual drivel about how much money the music labels lose because of pirating, but it'll be interesting to see where Kazaa go from here. It seems unlikely that it will have the same scope as before, and it is probably a safe assumption that DRM is on the cards as well. Well, there's always Russia.

How much is Man_and_4_goats_[PARIS_HILTON].mpg going to cost me?

kazaa has that much money to its name? through advertising alone...? how do these companies get so much money

news said it was $115 million this morning

legal to download music?
oh goody!

Kazaa sucks.

Limewire for the win.

How are you supposed to buy s*** off that site if you dont have a visa ?

You're not.

well done riaa! taking down an old p2p program that most users gave up on years ago & extorting $115M from them for a percieved loss of revenue... that's some major league piracy. arrrr. i guess by about the year 2016 they should have got hold of soulseek or some other dying p2p prog. :P

You're not.

It says it accepts mastercard, (pic) but there is no option when you actually goto pay