Music Industry Lures ‘Casual’ Pirates to Legal Sites

Over the past year, however, as sales of CDs have continued to fall and paid-for downloads from services like Apple’s iTunes have fallen short of hopes, record companies have moved to embrace casual file-sharers. Legal services offering free, unlimited streaming of music, rather than downloads, are proliferating. According to a survey published last week, they are taking some of the wind out of the pirates’ sails.

Read full article in The New York Times.

emily | 8:38 AM | News, Buzz |
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