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Study is from 2005 - is there more recent info? Music and entertainment industry continues to obsess about this - one way or another, the genie is long out of the bottle.

"Downloading 'myths' challenged

Music fans prefer dedicated music players to MP3 phones
People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests.
Digital music research firm The Leading Question found that they spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans.

Rather than taking legal action against downloaders, the music industry needs to entice them to use legal alternatives, the report said.

According to the music industry, legal downloads have tripled during 2005.

In the first half of 2005, some 10 million songs have been legally downloaded."

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