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...The stock’s pullback likely reflects profit-taking after a year when it has returned 60 per cent against the Topix....
...KT, which controls nearly half the country’s internet market, estimates about 1m smart TVs had been sold in South Korea by the end of last year, with some 100,000 heavy downloaders....
...Persistent illegal downloaders face having their internet links disconnected under a secret trade deal being negotiated by developed nations this week, according to activists and industry groups....
...A month after the album came out a survey suggested 62 per cent of In Rainbows’ downloaders chose to pay nothing for it....
...Downloaders can hide in the IP address of an internet café or an office network. New technology is changing to make peer-to-peer downloading less transparent....
...Some of the £60 premium will be distributed among the participating record companies....
...“The record business as we understand it is maybe 50 or 60 years old,” he argues, “but people have been going to gigs since the Stone Age.”...
...About 60 per cent of the “regular” or “active” podcast downloaders - the vast majority of whom are men - fast forward through commercials in their podcasts, reflecting a trend seen in other media....
...I find it extraordinary, given that 60 per cent of musicians in the UK earn less than ?10,000 per year and 94 per cent of songwriters or composers receive less than ?...
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