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What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. What I get out of file sharing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    files.

    to share.

    1. Re:What I get out of file sharing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      So...how does one obtain these stats?
      what method do all your stats are belong to us?
      R_U_tru3?
      Tell All!!!!

    2. Re:What I get out of file sharing by MindStalker · · Score: 2, Funny

      No... By artist the poster meant "con artist" at the Label.

    3. Re:What I get out of file sharing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey, piracy is bad...haven't you ever watched Don't Copy That Floppy?

  2. Let's try an experiment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone... go download some Right Said Fred and Spice Girls. Let's see if we can get them back on the radio! I'm Too Sexy for Girl Power!

    1. Re:Let's try an experiment... by wanderers_id · · Score: 5, Funny

      Let's not and say we did. The spice girls were painfull enough the first time around. I don't want to go through all THAT again.

      Crap, now I got their crappy song in my head. THANKS A LOT Coward!

      Why not everyone download music from that one band.... what was there name.... * wasn't it? I have lots of MP3s that meet that criteria. (*.mp3)

    2. Re:Let's try an experiment... by fussman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm thinking of writing up a VB worm that'll make everybody download Green Day songs, just so they're on the radio more.

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    3. Re:Let's try an experiment... by wanderers_id · · Score: 5, Funny

      "This is Casy Casum's top 40 (tm) and the number one hit in America today is 'carat open parenthesis star backslash' by the new breakout band "percent twenty"

      ^(*\ - %20.mp3

    4. Re:Let's try an experiment... by mini+me · · Score: 2, Funny

      That would be the most devastating virus ever written.

    5. Re:Let's try an experiment... by RumpRoast · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are not supposed to date 12 year old girls.

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    6. Re:Let's try an experiment... by akadruid · · Score: 3, Funny

      You've never met a DJ have you?
      They would announce the band as "Twenty-Em-Pee-Three!"
      They have eveything written out phonetically for them.

      Of course, I could be giving DJs too much credit. It might not be written.

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    7. Re:Let's try an experiment... by jhylkema · · Score: 5, Funny

      Quoth the poster:

      "This is Casy Casum's top 40 (tm) and the number one hit in America today is 'carat open parenthesis star backslash' by the new breakout band "percent twenty"

      (Those of you who have heard the mp3 of Casey going off will appreciate this.)

      "Hi, this is Case Kasem and the number one song in America today is 'carat open parentheses . . . WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING HERE??'"

    8. Re:Let's try an experiment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think all you would need is a bot to send reasonably frequent search requests for, say, Goatse, in order to get this onto the radio.

      I always wanted to know what goatse sounded like.
      I suppose it goes like `Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!'
      .

    9. Re:Let's try an experiment... by BrynM · · Score: 4, Funny
      Goatse, in order to get this onto the radio
      It's bad neough that I've seen it. I don't want to hear what that thing sounds like.
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    10. Re:Let's try an experiment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      actually I'm c) married

      my wife would listen to that crap, but I'm all "shut that shit off" and she's all "Do we have to listen to that Audioslave CD again?" and I'm all "Yeah, have some pimp juice, ho" and she's all "Ok".

    11. Re:Let's try an experiment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't want to hear what that thing sounds like.

      You ever used a vacuum cleaner on a puddle?

    12. Re:Let's try an experiment... by delsolsi97 · · Score: 1, Funny

      and I thought that was the mp3 file formerly known as Prince.

  3. Great business model. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    1- The RIAA can tell what is popular via a digital pulse on the wrist of P2P users.
    2- The RIAA pushes stations to play songs that are popular downloads.
    3- The RIAA members get listeners in cars and offices.
    4- The RIAA members sell more discs.
    5- The RIAA sues 12 year olds and tries to slash the wrist mentioned in 1 above.

    No wonder there's no:
    6- PROFIT!

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    1. Re:Great business model. by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 1, Funny

      that's cause profit is supposed to be step three, and step one is collecting underpants.

      YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!

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  4. Re:what the RIAA gets by mrtroy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read that as telling ben affleck not to talk like a pirate.

    Maybe because Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up!!!

    Arrrr d'er is a mighty fire 'n my belly for downloading dat goobly goop!

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  5. Re:Right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't be so harsh! Everyone knows that the progression is as follows 1. Post 2. ??? 3. Karma!!!! The "read article", "think", "preview post" options were omitted to save time. Oh, and did someone make Post anonymously default in this topic?

  6. Re:What they lose by DeltaSigma · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Fellow Slashdotter,
    It has come to my understanding that you use your own knowledge, morals, and experience to represent the other six billion people on earth.

    Please do not program, or pursue a career in programming.

    Thank You,
    DeltaSigma

  7. Security through obscurity by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought that if a band didn't want to have their crap "shared", they should have a level of obscurity in their name and in the titles of their songs.
    My band would be called "Jenna", my first album would be called "Jameson", and the songs would go like...

    01 - Jenna - Jameson - Blowjob
    02 - Jenna - Jameson - Cumshot
    03 - Jenna - Jameson - Threesome
    04 - Jenna - Jameson - Orgy
    05 - Jenna - Jameson - Lesbian

    Try to find these on kazaa !

  8. That's it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's the last straw! If the RIAA is getting profit from P2P, i say boycott P2P networks!

    That'll show 'em.

  9. You guys clearly need retraining. by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 5, Funny
    When the RIAA uses download statistics, it is only in our best interests as consumers. They are taking the lemons of corrupt human nature, and making sweet corporate lemonade. I, for one, am thankful that such a down home mom and pop operation such as the RIAA, in their infinite wisdom, makes something good, noble, and legal come out of all this theft, piracy, and debauchery. I can't wait for the day that all my activities are monitored for legality by four letter acronyms.


    Anyone who disagrees is clearly a criminal/pirate/terrorist! Mend your ways and submit to RIAA amnesty!=)

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  10. RIAA amnesty form by angle_slam · · Score: 5, Funny

    See this page for a peek at the amnesty form the RIAA wants you to fill out.

  11. who cares? by Thinkit3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's more important to eliminate unnatural laws.

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  12. Re:Legitamate by 3terrabyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ironically, you said a mountainful in your typo!!! Awesome Freudian slip. You should definately porn more often.

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  13. Re:Jenna would sue your ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    06 - Jenna - Jameson - Up the wazoo

  14. Re:Right... by s88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "(and I don't download very much)"

    Just in case the RIAA happens to monitor slashdot. :)

    Don't mind me, I'm not the P2Per you're looking for.

  15. Re:Not quite right by drakaan · · Score: 2, Funny

    And not to mention the fact that after your car is stolen, you no longer have your car.

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  16. Oh boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Anyone with friends in law enforcement has heard stories of punks that clearly got their cues from porn on the net."

    And anybody who trusts LEOs for understanding criminal psychology deserves all derision they get. Its like asking an auto mechanic which is the best designed car engine. It seems reasonable until you understand that fixing an engine has very little to do with designing or understanding an engine.

    But I suspect most of you idiots won't see the difference. Most of you, I suspect, are in law enforcement or fixing cars.

    Laws are for people with no friends.

  17. Well, on the other hand... by darth_silliarse · · Score: 2, Funny

    "If the labels acknowledge a legitimate use for P2P programs..."

    A typical search on Gnutella "teen" "mpg" "fucking" "britney" "kournakova" "pussy". Now if we can convince the law makers that we're looking for a teenage tennis playing pop idol who fucking hates cats then we're onto something...

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  18. Re:Why DJs have everything written out by Reziac · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are a couple newscasters
    in the Los Angeles market who
    pause at the end of each line,
    just like the narrator on the
    old Fractured Fairy Tales
    segment of Bullwinkle, so the
    effect is kinda like reading
    this post. :)

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