BigChampagne (BC) is using P2P networks like Kazaa, Grokster and Morpheus to mine file trader's habits to the benefit of the major record labels. Essentially P2P networks have become BC's marketing focus group tracking every download and selling the data to the music industry despite the labels claiming that P2P networks are of no use to them in legal battles. "If the labels acknowledge a legitimate use for P2P programs, it would undercut their case as well as their zero-tolerance stance. 'We would definitely consider gleaning marketing wisdom from these networks a non-infringing use,' says Fred von Lohmann, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the San Francisco-based cyber liberties group that's helping to defend Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa."
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