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[IP] What the RIAA gets out of file sharing




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

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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