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| From | Road Angel <orb@stripe.colorado.edu> |
| Subject | INTERNET FILE-SHARING BIGGER THAN RECORD BUSINESS |
| Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:49:34 -0700 (MST) |
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INTERNET FILE-SHARING BIGGER THAN RECORD BUSINESS
The California legislature was warned yesterday that free peer-to-peer
music
file sharing has become so common that its volume actually dwarfed the
multi-billion dollar recording industry. Eric Garland, a Web trends
analyst,
told the Senate Select Committee on the
Entertainment Industry that fighting the popular activity would be "a
losing
battle" and that the industry should instead embrace downloadable music as
a
part of their distribution model. Industry execs see it differently,
however, and plan to push for legal challenges to P2P sharing while
launching education campaigns about the illegality of such activity.
[SOURCE: The Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jim Wasserman]
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40744-2003Mar28.html)
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