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  2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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    Spotify and other on-demand streaming services are offering a way for consumers to still get their music for free while also contributing to the musician in a small way instead of simply illegally downloading the music, but it also moves customers away from buying hard copies of music or even legally downloading songs which is severely reducing ...

  3. The High Price of Free Music: How Illegal Downloads Are ... - AOL

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    When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally.

  4. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    The study analyzed the behavior of 16,000 European music consumers and found that although music piracy negatively affects offline music sales, illegal music downloads had a positive effect on legal music purchases. Without illegal downloading, legal purchases were about two percent lower. [94] The study has received criticism, particularly ...

  5. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    In a 2000 study, it was shown that users of Napster who download free music actually spent more money on music. [20] In another study, it was proposed that by downloading free music, users are able to sample new music and find new tastes, which may lead to increased sales. [21] Several artists also supported Napster and used the service for ...

  6. Money College: Downloads, piracy still a thorn for music industry

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    Near the start of the new century, the Internet gave us Napster, the peer-to-peer network that allowed people to trade and download songs and albums for free, illegally of course. Since then, the ...

  7. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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    The release of Napster in 1999 caused a rapid upsurge in online piracy of music, films and television, though it always maintained a focus on music in the MP3 format. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It allowed users to share content via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and was one of the first mainstream uses of this distribution methods as it made it easy for ...

  8. You Wouldn't Steal a Car - Wikipedia

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    The announcement depicts either a teenage girl trying to illegally download a movie or two women attempting to buy DVDs from a bootlegger interwoven with clips of a man committing theft of various objects, and equates these crimes to the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyrighted materials, such as films.

  9. 20 Things Millennials Did On The Internet That Would Make No ...

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    Illegally burning copies of entire albums off of LimeWire and Napster ... A New York University student downloads music from the Napster in 2001. Spencer Platt via Getty Images.