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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. hmmm.... by Smitty825 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where have we seen this before?

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    Doh!
  2. Kazza? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be careful how you spell it, Kazza is a recording industry frontend where you fill a form with your name and e-mail address. You probably mean Kazaa.

  3. the better article by noah_fense · · Score: 4, Informative


    has been around for a little while . . .

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/fileshare .html

  4. Re:Why doesn't an enterprising label..... by femto · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't you mean the Internet Underground Music Archive? (since 1993)

  5. Welcome to the dupe of THIS article... by bonch · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/154122 2&mode=nested&tid=141&tid=187&tid=188&tid=98&tid=9 9