Using smartphones to sell music may curb counterfeiting by Rose Skelton For years, pirate distributors at the Alabo international market in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, dominated the music distribution business. These fraudsters had the means to cheaply reproduce music. More importantly, they controlled the distribution network by providing counterfeit hard copies to on every street corner in this West African nation. Even artists, desperate to get their music to the masses, would sell their master tapes to the pirates. The Nigerian music piracy system became a highly successful — albeit illegal — model for the distribution of hardcopy music that…
