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Originally posted by gkremen
[B]The purpose of the interview was to defend the industry by saying we are not suing everyone like the RIAA is (and Acacia) but many are using P2P to spread their content and name - like putting out URLs in the pictures or the use of DRM like SinCity does an excellent job of in trailers.
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Something interesting about P2P. A buddy of mine is a programmer down in LA at this company.. What they do is track gnutella & kazaa, for the music industry.. There was a write-up about this in wired this month. Another friend of mine works at a large music marketing company, and he was telling me he even uses their services..
What they basically do is track downloads just like they track radio station playlists.. If a label is trying to push a new band, they'll track all the downloads of that band.. find the areas where the band's downloads are popular & increasing over a few weeks, and then start calling up the radio stations in those areas and putting pressure to play on them..
Bah. No legitimate purpose, my ass.