Brad Stone, Staff Writer, New York Times

The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry

July 27, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

Like many teenagers, Josh Wilson, the 13-year-old son of the New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, has on occasion visited the Internet’s peer-to-peer file-sharing services to download music and television shows.

But recently, as Mr. Wilson recounted last week on his popular blog, A VC, Josh has started streaming television shows from Netflix (NFLX) under the family’s $24-a-month subscription plan and listening to licensed, ad-supported music videos from YouTube on his iPhone.

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