Opinion: Responding To SoundExchange… By Their Numbers

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This is a guest post from Fred Wilhelms, a lawyer whose concerns about SoundExchange we recently wrote about. Due to the length of the post, we’ve put some of it after the jump, so you’ll need to click through to read the whole thing — but, trust us, it’s worth it.

Back before New Years, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick picked up on my comment to p2pnet.net regarding the list of artists SoundExchange said it couldn’t find. I wrote that the list was not on the website. I was wrong about that, and Mike got suckered into repeating it. I went blissfully without the Internet for a couple weeks (yes, it is possible) and missed the whole thing. I just got it wrong. The list is there. I just couldn’t find it….