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When you buy a song file what you are buying is not a stamped product, but permission. Permission to copy a track from a sanctioned vendor. But it is just as easy if not easier from people to copy from one another. Who needs a middle man unless they offer an added value and do it at a motivating price point?
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Source Record Industry Digital Growth Doomed by Mechanical Rates - 10/05/2008

 

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