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...Like-for-like sales fell 4.2 per cent compared with a decline of 0.4 per cent a year ago. Statutory pre-tax profit, before exceptional items, rose from £61.3m to £68.9m....
...A month after the album came out a survey suggested 62 per cent of In Rainbows’ downloaders chose to pay nothing for it....
...Virtual private networks, for example, allow people to mask their identity, and subscribing to these sites can costs as little as €4 a month....
...The UK market has become the largest and fastest growing music download market in Europe, and IFPI research showed that 5 per cent of internet users paid for music on the web compared to 4 per cent who regularly...
...Selling copies over the internet, he claimed to have earned more than $4,000 a week before he was arrested last year by the FBI....
...The nearly 4,000 cases brought by the IFPI so far are “only the beginning”, however, Mr Kennedy cautions. “It will be like parking tickets – we’ll always have to have this deterrent.”...
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