Jun 17 2010
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“ While, years ago, you might have had to buy a CD to satiate a craving for Katy Perry’s latest track, you can now watch it to your heart’s content on YouTube, stream it on legal sites like Grooveshark or Blip.fm, or just throw down a buck and buy it on iTunes. To argue that everything would return to normal if only illegal downloading would stop is to miss that piracy has only been one part of the equation of how media businesses are changing. After all, people aren’t pirating newspapers—and their business model has been equally affected by the web.
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