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Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P

Posted by Cliff on from the having-their-cake-and-eating-it-too dept.

Matthew Schultheis writes: "Yahoo / AP is reporting that the record industry is using the files traded on Kazza et al. to track where music is popular. It turns out that they even pay for this information. 'It's the most vast and scalable sample audience that the world has ever seen'" Now if they could only use this data to somehow put out better music...

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  1. This is why we have Avril Lavingne... by Denyer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...sex sells, even when it's underage. I wish I were kidding.

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  2. One sentence comes to mind.. by Aliencow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shut the fuck up Cliff, we don't need your stupid comments in every freaking story. The quality of music is still there, OF COURSE it might not be what your 13years old daughter listens to, or what's on the radio, and NO they will NOT improve that stuff because it SELLS.

    EOM

  3. Hey, another dupe article by bonch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This story is pretty old. It even looks like the same summary almost word for word.