Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade group formed in July by the parent companies of song-sharing services Kazaa and Altnet has rolled out new plans or a pay music service: It will work in stages, starting with the record companies allowing their songs, protected with copyright tools rendering them unlistenable, to be distributed on networks such as Kazaa. Consumers would pay Kazaa to unzip the copyright-protection shroud, enabling their computer to play the song. Later stages of the plan would shift the billing to ISPs, which would be required to monitor which songs users are listening to.
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