Chennai, March 15 (PTI): Perhaps for the first time in the country, touch screen "ADD Kiosks" which facilitate complete downloading of thousands of devotional, classical and film songs were thrown open today by a private firm for public use at the domestic air terminal of the Chennai Airport.

To start with four such Kiosks were launched at the domestic airport here by Chennai Airports Authority of India Director Dinesh Kumar.

Besides devotional, classical and film songs, the public could download monophonic and polyphonic midi ringtones into IPODS, USB-MP3 players and pendrives etc.

'This is the herald of a glorious era for an easy, global distribution of music and movie software and the begining of the end of all forms of piracy', Director of Giri Trading Agency Private Ltd, T S Ranganathan, told media persons at a formal lauch of the Kiosks.

He said it was propsed to start such Kiosks at important places and shopping arcades in the city. Soon such kiosks would be launched in Mumbai and Bangalore Airports and later in other parts of the country.

Encouraged by the huge success of two (anytime digital downloads) ADD Kiosks which were installed at two of the agency's outlets in the city, it was decided to launch the fourth kiosks at the airport as a regular feature, he said adding that the inbuilt system was so designed that even a person without knowledge of computers could use it very comfortably.