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  2. Music download - Wikipedia

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    Music download. A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without ...

  3. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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    Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on jurisdiction.

  4. List of music sharing websites - Wikipedia

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    Free 15000000 Hip Hop, Urban: United States: Deezer: 2007 53000000 Free 14000000 General France: Google Play Music: 2011 15000 Trial-ware: 50,000 General United States: Jamendo: 2005 400000 Free — General Luxembourg: Live Music Archive: 1996 170000 Free — General United States: Musopen: 2005 — Free — Classical music: United States ...

  5. Comparison of digital music stores - Wikipedia

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    The customer will have the copy of the song permanently on their disk, provided the track is not deleted by the customer, the disk does not get physically damaged, or suffers from being corrupted. Major examples of digital music stores include iTunes Store, Amazon Music, Bandcamp and 7digital. [1]

  6. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    A 2007 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that the effect of music downloads on legal music sales was "statistically indistinguishable from zero". A report from 2013, released by the European Commission Joint Research Centre suggests that illegal music downloads have almost no effect on the number of legal music downloads. The ...

  7. Digital music store - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A digital music store is a business that sells digital audio files of music recordings over the Internet. Customers gain ownership of a license to use the files, in contrast to a music streaming service, where they listen to recordings without gaining ownership. Customers pay either for each recording or on a subscription basis.

  8. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Metallica, et al. v. Napster, Inc. was a 2000 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California case [1] that focused on copyright infringement, racketeering, and unlawful use of digital audio interface devices. Metallica vs. Napster, Inc. was the first case that involved an artist suing a peer-to-peer file sharing ("P2P") software ...

  9. Digital rights management - Wikipedia

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    Digital rights management ( DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM), [1] such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. [2] DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g ...

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