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...But just as web-savvy Chinese are able to get around the Great Firewall, so too could American downloaders skirt new US laws....
...Fierce competition from supermarkets, online retailers and illegal downloaders has already forced rivals such as Woolworths and Zavvi to go under....
...Its online missteps, from suing downloaders to letting Apple’s dominant iTunes store dictate pricing, are so well charted that few outsiders would look to the music business for case studies in how to market...
...A month after the album came out a survey suggested 62 per cent of In Rainbows’ downloaders chose to pay nothing for it....
...Reviewing it, one nameless downloader said it was “a great source of reference with an easy-to-use interface and many excellent photographs”....
...But after 10 years of persistent lobbying, the music and film industries finally appear to have won a powerful ally in government....
...The format of the album is threatened as downloaders pick only favourite tracks for their MP3 players....
...But Mozilla’s hoped-for PR coup turned into something of a debacle as thousands of eager downloaders rushed the site....
...No further sanctions will be taken during the 10-week campaign, which Virgin said was motivated by its involvement with the music industry....
...If they were all made available at once, it’s entirely possible you could end up with a top 10 entirely of Beatles tracks.”...
...Of those, about 10 per cent are “heavy users”, downloading eight or more podcasts weekly. Most podcast listeners download between one and three shows per week....
...It would put Reg Vardy on a price/earnings ratio of 15 times on current-year forecasts, in a sector where 10 or 11 times is more typical....
...Using route-tracing technology that tracks data in its journey across the trunks and elbows of the internet, he can even pinpoint the latitude and longitude of a downloader to within 10 miles....
...■ Lobby internet service providers to help track down illegal downloaders and disclose their identities without the need for costly and time-consuming court orders, and penalising offenders....
...The group is making 150,000 tracks available on its “smart radio” system, which will personalise channels to the demand of individual downloaders....
...10,000 per year and 94 per cent of songwriters or composers receive less than ?...
...That means no more scrolling, says Mr von Tetzchner, the 38-year-old co-founder and chief executive of 10-year old Opera Software....
...The online downloader claimed that Apple, which controls over 80 per cent of the market for digital music players, had broken antitrust laws by making songs bought from its iTunes database exclusive to its...
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