Recording Industry cluing in?

It’s almost funny to see the Wall Street Journal with an article about how record labels are finally admitting that file sharing is a way to market to the biggest music fans (found via Broadband Reports). While it’s laughable that it would take the industry this long to even venture to admit what was obvious to most everyone else, it is a tiny step in the right direction.

This is a step in the right direction no doubt, but it’s sure to be a long time before we -ever- see actual change. The first step would be to stop suing people, and spend all those lawyer and employee dollars on marketing music to those who actually want to buy it.