[US] Record Labels Pay up to $40K Monthly, Use P2P Data for Market Analysis

Article from Wired.com (English)

It's ironic that some major labels are now paying a company named BigChampagne to analyze what users are swapping on peer-to-peer networks. Remember the quote from the LinuxTagOpenMusic site:

'Don't ask "How can I keep people from listening to my music without paying", but rather "How can I make money from my music?". '

Perhaps if the major labels and the RIAA had thought about this before they started suing their customers, they could have come up with a creative solution that would be more in line with what people are actually doing. As it is, they have merely generated enough ill-will to be remembered for decades.

Willy Smith, reporting from Costa Rica