[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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