p2pnet - rss feed: Korea p2p charges revealed
p2p news / p2pnet: Korean p2p sites including Soribada, forced to adopt fee-charging services and due to launch on April 1, may go on hold.
Filtering technology used to stop people from sharing music files owned by the Big Four Organized Music cartel still need to be put in place, says Seo Hee-deok, boss of the Big Four’s the Korea Music Producers’ Association.
Soribada, Korea’s largest p2p file sharing company, was recently forced offline by the KMPA.
It reappeared in February and now users will, "have to pay certain amounts of service fees for downloading music files, according to the Korea Music Producers’ Association," says Korea’s ETNews.
"We agreed with Soribada to charge 500 won (about 51 cents) for users downloading music files labeled with digital right management, 700 won (about 72 cents) for music files without DRM and 250 won (ahout 26 cents) for poor sound-quality music," Hee-deok, chairman of the Big Four’s KMPA, is quoted as saying.
"This is the first time that details of the deal between the leading P2P service site and music producers were unveiled, but Soribada refused to comment on the agreement," says ETNews. "With the new service in place, ‘pay-as-you-use’ type of fee charging is expected to become mainstream in the online music download service market.
About 20 other p2p service providers are also "in talks" with the KMPA, "for similar arrangements," but, "major record labels such as DoReMi Media, Manine Media, Ins Digital and CJ Music are opposing monthly flat fees except outdated songs".
Also See:
forced offline - ‘New’ Sorbada: subscriptions, February 27, 2006
ETNews - P2P Filing Sharing Sites Switche [sic] to Fee-charging Service, March 27, 2006
