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How does Kazaa and all other P2P sharing prorams make money?

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TommyVercetti

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How does Kazaa and all other P2P sharing companies make money? Do they sell a premium version of their software? If so, I have never heard of anyone buying that. Is their only source those pesky pop-ups and in software banners? That has to be a weak source of income.

Also, if Kazaa gets targeted for piracy, why don't Newsgroups ever get targeted?
 
I was wondering the same thing about Napster when it was out. Napster didn't have ads, yet their company spent a lot of money on legal defense. Where did they get income from?
 
Originally posted by: henmaster
I was wondering the same thing about Napster when it was out. Napster didn't have ads, yet their company spent a lot of money on legal defense. Where did they get income from?
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I believe the entire time Napster was around they were working off of investor capital.

If that's the appropriate term. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: henmaster
I was wondering the same thing about Napster when it was out. Napster didn't have ads, yet their company spent a lot of money on legal defense. Where did they get income from?
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That is the pre dotcom bust era, when the thinking was "Let's get this thing rolling first, we will think of making money later"
 
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber the RIAA doesn't know what a newsgroup is yet.
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Then why do they keep trying to shutdown packetnews?
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That is like trying to shut down Google or Yahoo, because it could lead to finding websites like Packetnews and other illegal things.
 
Originally posted by: henmaster
I was wondering the same thing about Napster when it was out. Napster didn't have ads, yet their company spent a lot of money on legal defense. Where did they get income from?
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napster got a banner ad eventually iirc
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Yeah. Kazza makes their money from ads, and inflicting user's systems with all kinds of nasty spyware.
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I thought that was kinda obvious..........
 
It seems like usenet would be the easiest thing to take down, since everything is centrally stored on the ISP's servers and not on peoples hard drives. I guess they figure it isn't worth it since the amount of people who use usenet is a drop in the bucket compared to the people who use p2p.
 
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