Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P

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...

hmmm....

[Smitty825]

Where have we seen this [slashdot.org] before?

Re:Benefitting from a crime...

[jonblaze]

I have absolutely no legal background (that statement goes way beyond IANAL), but I'm sort of thinking that benefitting from a crime must be illegal.

Usually, the perpetrator cannot benefit from his own crime. Thus, if an heir apparent kills his intestate parent, slayer statutes will often prevent the killer from receiving his parent's estate.

Kazza?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

the better article

[noah_fense]

has been around for a little while . . .

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

Re:Why doesn't an enterprising label.....

[femto]

Don't you mean the Internet Underground Music Archive [iuma.com]? (since 1993)

Re:Benefitting from a crime...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just as we do not, for ethical reasons, use information that the Nazis gleaned from their experimentation on the Jews in World War II.

Really. I think you should read up on Operation Paperclip [wikipedia.org]. Science/Information is still science/information no matter ( or perhaps in spite ) of whoever uncovers it. At least the government is wise enough to understand this.

iRate radio.

[Oscar_Wilde]

Everytime something like this comes up I'm reminded of iRate radio (I know its slightly off topic but it still comes to mind). From the iRate homepage [sourceforge.net]:

iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other people's to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.

So there you have it. Now you can cut the RIAA out of the loop entirely.

Welcome to the dupe of THIS article...

[bonch]

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