The state of music online: ten years after Napster

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02 July 2009In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself.

The music industry has been on the front lines of the battle to convert freeloaders into paying customers, and their efforts have been watched closely by other digitised industries – newspapers, book publishing and Hollywood among them – who are hoping to staunch their own bleeding before it’s too late.

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