wessman
March 17th, 2003, 07:50 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Radio's New Crystal Ball
http://www.webspins.com
Los Angeles, CA, March 17, 2003 - Everyone is buzzing over last week's Sands Report P2P article. "You have to check this out - there's a website devoted entirely to how much music has been stolen!" Those were the words of a somewhat startled 30-year record promotion exec as he informed me about http://www.webspins.com, a site that tracks the number of P2P (peer to peer) downloads each individual song gets. "Reminds me of the retail days back in the '70's when we used to say, 'a record stolen is as good as a record sold,'" jokes this wily vet.
So if tens of millions of users are downloading music files each month, whether you consider it stolen or not, shouldn't radio be using this information as a research tool? Yes, and some, such as Live 105's Sean Demery already are........
......"but America's biggest companies are not just sitting idly by. "Last week in your article, Michael Idlis said downloading is unstoppable - but it is stoppable...it's just a matter of money and economics," says one high-ranking record executive who preferred to go by the alias "Deep Throat." He told me about various companies that operate under the radar, including..... http://www.webspins.com .
We are all wondering who "Deep Throat" is.
Radio's New Crystal Ball
http://www.webspins.com
Los Angeles, CA, March 17, 2003 - Everyone is buzzing over last week's Sands Report P2P article. "You have to check this out - there's a website devoted entirely to how much music has been stolen!" Those were the words of a somewhat startled 30-year record promotion exec as he informed me about http://www.webspins.com, a site that tracks the number of P2P (peer to peer) downloads each individual song gets. "Reminds me of the retail days back in the '70's when we used to say, 'a record stolen is as good as a record sold,'" jokes this wily vet.
So if tens of millions of users are downloading music files each month, whether you consider it stolen or not, shouldn't radio be using this information as a research tool? Yes, and some, such as Live 105's Sean Demery already are........
......"but America's biggest companies are not just sitting idly by. "Last week in your article, Michael Idlis said downloading is unstoppable - but it is stoppable...it's just a matter of money and economics," says one high-ranking record executive who preferred to go by the alias "Deep Throat." He told me about various companies that operate under the radar, including..... http://www.webspins.com .
We are all wondering who "Deep Throat" is.