And you thought Kazaa had gone completely kosher. Wrong. Months after paying $100m to the record labels and movie studios to settle piracy charges, the browbeaten P2P music service has only today come to terms with America’s music publishers.
In a statement, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) said Kazaa had agreed to pay a “substantial settlement to compensate music publishers and songwriters for the infringement of musical works on the Kazaa network.”