You Can Lead Consumers to Music, But Can You Make Them Pay?

may 28, 2002  08:34 pm
You Can Lead Consumers to Music, But Can You Make Them Pay?
An estimated 40 million Americans use peer-to-peer networks to share often unauthorized audio and video files. Judith Lewis of LA Weekly reports that the record and film industries, anxious for a solution to their copyright woes, look to "distributed networks" for a new model that will allow users to compensate artists, labels and studios for their downloads.