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The music industry has been criticized for complaining about illegal downloads while not doing enough to let people download music legally. Grainge said the deal with Nokia shows that Universal is "doing all we can to transform ourselves into a consumer-led business."
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Ever since Thomas Edison cobbled together the first phonograph and sang “Mary Had a Little Lamb” into it, people have been seeking new ways todownload music. For many years – decades even – the only way to download music was to make a copy of a vinyl record. Eventually, with the advent of tapes, people began to make copies of vinyl records onto cassette tapes. Still later came CDs; first they were strictly for recordings, but eventually writeable CDs came along, and people could burn their own albums.
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Currently, Kallasvuo said, most people rip CDs from their existing music collection or download them from illegal services. Consumers need new services so that "the necessity, or the lure, of stealing music will go away," he said.
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The tricky part about downloading music is doing it legally — and it all depends on what you're downloading. Using a file-sharing network like Kazaa or BitTorrent to freely download copyrighted music is illegal — unless the copyright owner (the artist, the music label, or someone else) gives permission for the music to be freely distributed. Rest assured, very few artists or music labels do this. They're in the music business to make money; they're not going to just give away their music. In fact, the recording industry is filing lawsuits against copyright infringers — that is, people who distribute copyrighted music without permission — because it claims to be losing tons of money to illegal downloads. And because most of the music being shared is protected by copyright, it's best to stay away from them.
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