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Industry Offers a Carrot in Online Music Fight

Industry Offers a Carrot in Online Music Fight: “Forty-three million Americans — half of those who connected to the Internet — used file-sharing software last month that allows people to copy music without paying for it, according to a survey by the NPD Group, a market research firm. The file-sharing program KaZaA, which rose in popularity after the record industry won its lawsuit against Napster, has been downloaded more than 270 million times, more than any other free program available on CNet’s Download.com site. The migration of music from shiny disks to the online arena has personalized debates about intellectual property rights once reserved for lawyers, turning passive consumers into political activists in increasingly large numbers. Having discovered the virtues of the new online form, many people are demanding the freedom to sample, trade and make available music in ways that were never before possible.” Thorough discussion of the latest issues in the struggle between people who buy music and the people who produce and sell the music, and the shift from extremely high profit margin CDs to online formats like Apple’s new service. From NYTimes.com (free registration required; content available free only for a few weeks).

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