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Spotify leading to a decline in music piracy, at least in Sweden

article published on 29 September, 2011

According to a new report, it appears that music piracy has consistently fallen since 2009, thanks to the popularity of Spotify, at least in Sweden. Overall piracy has fallen 25 percent in two years, says the Swedish Music industry. Spotify, which is free with some restrictions, has millions of tracks from all the major labels and independents. Premium versions give mobile access and ... [ read the full article ]

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Mez
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_ 		30. September 2011 @ 12:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
As this shows, people would prefer to keep within the law. It is only when the industry makes it too expensise to stay within the law do they pirate. Well that is true for many but not all of us. This and Pandora are probably experiments to see what the public will bear.

Some will redily shell out $1/tune especially if the icards are gifts. Most persons do not want to pay that much of their hard earned money for low quality music.
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dEwMe
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_ 		30. September 2011 @ 14:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow these guys must not be related to RIAA cause you'd never hear them admit this...lol

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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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