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From the UB Reporter:
"A UB researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and much more costly hands-on evidence-gathering."
But what I want to know is, can it slip a noose around the neck of the Billboard Hot 100?
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Wait! Record companies used to pay people to give away free copies of their music? That's impossible!
Posted by: Tim Kastelle | December 22, 2009 at 01:49 PM
Silly record companies... Will they never learn? -mike
Posted by: r:m:b | December 22, 2009 at 06:09 PM