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Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business
Researchers at The Leading Question and experts from Music Ally have determined that fewer people are regularly paying for downloads, while the percentage of the population that regularly downloads music from a P2P network is holding steady. They concluded, like so many before them, that the music industry is in dire need of a ground-up overhaul if it is to survive. However, they've done more than critique. The researchers came up a five-point plan for saving the music industry. (18/05) More
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