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A music 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. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic, Inc., [2] which lasted until August 2012. Kazaa Media Desktop was commonly used to exchange MP3 music files and other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents over the Internet.
BuyMusic was a digital branch of Buy.com, launched around 2003, was later merged into the music section of Buy.com, and then shut down in late 2009. [18] Walmart.com operated an online music store, but discontinued it in 2011. [19] Puretracks operated an online music store, but discontinued it in 2013. [20] Pono Music closed in July 2016. [21]
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 ...
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iTunes Store is a digital marketplace selling songs, albums, music videos, ringtones and alert tones. It was launched by Apple Inc. on April 28, 2003 for Mac OS X, and on October 16, 2003 for Microsoft Windows.
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The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services.These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, [1] without the listener necessarily having to purchase a file for download. [2]