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• 06 Apr 08
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  What the labels call "piracy" is actually free distribution of promotional material, and such a model is not without precedent.
  
  It's called radio, and more recently, music videos. In both cases, record labels basically paid to promote album sales — either through payola, in the case of radio, or through seven-figure film budgets, in the case of music videos

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  • What the labels call "piracy" is actually free distribution of promotional material, and such a model is not without precedent.

       

    It's called radio, and more recently, music videos. In both cases, record labels basically paid to promote album sales — either through payola, in the case of radio, or through seven-figure film budgets, in the case of music videos

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