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  2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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    Surviving Music Piracy In A Digital Era" By Jelle Janssens, Stijn Vandaele, and Tom Vander Beken presents an analysis of the prevalence of piracy in music trade, which has affected the global sales of CDs. This article points out that technological development such as file sharing, MP3 players, and CDRs have increased music piracy.

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

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    So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that four out of five digital music downloads are. When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from ...

  4. Music download - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Napster - Wikipedia

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    According to Richard Menta of MP3 Newswire, [18] the effect of Napster in this instance was isolated from other elements that could be credited for driving sales, and the album's unexpected success suggested that Napster was a good promotional tool for music.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Georgia’s Two Biggest Illegal Streaming Sites Get Shut Down ...

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    Leading anti-piracy body Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has shut down two major illegal streaming services in Georgia. Considered the two largest illegal streamers in the former ...

  9. Legal aspects of file sharing - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the case of Swiss-German file hosting service RapidShare, in 2010 the US government's congressional international anti-infringement caucus declared the site a "notorious illegal site", claiming that the site was "overwhelmingly used for the global exchange of illegal movies, music and other copyrighted works". [1]