While legal music downloads
are possible in the US and they slowly start getting available in other
countries too, they now plan to increase the charges for downloading songs
on the Internet. While single titles usually cost 99 Cents and albums 9,99
Dollars or Euro, they now aim to get between 1.25 and 2.49 Dollars per
title.
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I guess that will be the end of legal music downloads and everyone who
currently pays for music will now start using illegal filesharing again.
In the article we can also read that music industry and download
services blame each other for the high costs. But that should not be carried out
on the consumers' back if they both want to continue earning money by selling
music over the Internet.
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Freaks.
Source: PCWelt.de