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  2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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    Another issue is that because many people in the world illegally download music because they cannot afford to purchase legitimate copies, not every illegal download equates to a lost sale. This has some effect on music sales, but as Lawrence Lessig points out, there is wide asymmetry between the estimated volume of illegal downloading and the ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    A 2007 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that the effect of music downloads on legal music sales was "statistically indistinguishable from zero". [93] A report from 2013, released by the European Commission Joint Research Centre suggests that illegal music downloads have almost no effect on the number of legal music downloads. The ...

  6. Timeline of file sharing - Wikipedia

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    Using connections inside record companies, they rip pre-release music CDs, and make the mp3's available for others to download. [13] Mirabilis developed ICQ a chat client for Windows that can do file transfers up to 2 GBs. 1997 – Scour Inc. is founded by five UCLA Computer Science students.

  7. Numbers Don't Lie: The Music Industry Still Doesn't ... - AOL

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    An app that stops piracy. Well, not exactly, but a new app from the Office of Intellectual Property and lobbyist group UK Music aims to educate young music fans about the impact of piracy on their ...

  8. Music download - Wikipedia

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    The iTunes Store accessed via a mobile phone, showing Pink Floyd's eighth studio album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone.

  9. Peer-to-peer file sharing - Wikipedia

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    Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content. [1]