An industry group that represents Kazaa has proposed a strategy that, if employed, could turn some peer-to-peer file-sharing services into a source of revenue for the record industry. The Distributed Computing Industry Association, which represents Kazaa’s parent companies Sharman Networks and Altnet, has suggested that music files traded through peer-to-peer networks could be encrypted so that only users who pay an access fee would be able to access the files.
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DCIA Proposes Paid P2P File-Sharing Plan
Posted by: Randy Angstrom October 9, 2003 02:50 PMAn industry group that represents Kazaa has proposed a strategy that, if employed, could turn some peer-to-peer file-sharing services into a source of revenue for the record industry. The Distributed Computing Industry Association, which represents Kazaa’s parent companies Sharman Networks and Altnet, has suggested that music files traded through peer-to-peer networks could be encrypted so that only users who pay an access fee would be able to access the files.