RIAA’s Legitimate Use of P2P

Cory Doctorow has this nice tidbit at boing boing blog:Labels are data-mining the P2Pnets

You mean the record companies would try to get a benifit from P2P? *gasp*

Really, the whole thing is funny. They artificially inflate prices, try to use lawsuits to keep their business model going, but there’s still a segment in there that sees the benifit of Kaaza, et al.

Labels are data-mining the P2Pnets
BigChampagne, a P2P metrics company that generates Billboard-charts for file-sharing nets, is the subject of a Wired article in which they reveal that their customers are the same labels whose industry association is suing everyone from 12 year old girls to university profs for using those nets.

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