Music Industry Looking for Lyrics Payoff

theodp writes "U.S. digital entertainment company Gracenote has obtained licenses to distribute the lyrics of more than 1 million songs. Music publishers are still mulling legal action against Web sites that provide lyrics without authorization." From the article: "Ralph Peer II, Firth's counterpart at peermusic, said licensing lyrics should boost worldwide music publishing revenues, estimated at about $4 billion annually. Peer said he hopes the unauthorized sites will seek licenses. 'I think we'll see a reasonable increase, as much as a 5 percent increase, in industry music publishing revenues five years out from where we are right now,' Peer said."

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Geez I Hope So

[Mateo_LeFou]

"Could you go without purchasing or even downloading music for 3 months? 6 months? a year? to prove a point?"

Geez, I hope so.

If you can't find enough music to listen to here or here or here or here or here or here then I pity you. But try here or here before giving up entirely.