Universal and the Long Tail
Universal has learned a very profitable lesson about the long tail theory. Publishing out-of-print music for even a tiny bit of money per song is much more profitable than letting it rot on some back self. Of course, industry insiders like Janis Ian have been saying this for a long time. Anything that invigorates the back catalog (and P2P DOES invigorate it) is a channel to making more money.


