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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. Re:Better Music? Hah! by nate+nice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I enjoy music which has taste, thought and doesn't try and be a calculated mess of obnoxious, cluttered, boring drool. If you want to break your bad addiction to music created for people who "miss the point" then check something like ESG, Wire, Talking Heads, The Clean, Young Marble Giants, Chris Clark, Muziq, Seefeel or even Devo and/or Berlin...yes, Berlin. Any of the artists I have listed have more integrity and intellect in an 8000 bit sample of any of their music than Rush could ever even accidentally come up with by some fluke of writing so much bad music that eventually an accidental good song came to together,... maybe. Good luck listing to crap and believing it's any better than the piss you mentioned that is played on the radio.

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