[IP] What the RIAA gets out of file sharing

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:08:10 -0500
From: John Lyon <jelyon@mac.com>
Subject: What the RIAA gets out of file sharing
To: dave@farber.net

Might be of interest to IP:

What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/1541222

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 10, @10:48AM

from the briar-patch-in-disguise dept.

ChrisPaget writes "Wired have a fascinating article about a company called 
BigChampagne which sells regional P2P download statistics to most of the 
major record labels. When the labels know what people are downloading, they 
know what to put on the radio, and sales in the area increase. The record 
industry's lawsuits against file- sharing companies hang on their assertion 
that the programs have no use other than to help infringe copyrights. If 
the labels acknowledge a legitimate use for P2P programs, it would undercut 
their case as well as their zero-tolerance stance."

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