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The music industry has been destroyed by this something for nothing
culture, with albums being given away free. It can be argued that this
has made the music industry more democratic, enabling individual
musicians and artist to compete in the free download market. However,
this surge for free content has diluted the industry, the purse is
getting empty so artists are not getting paid a fair return for their
efforts. It gets worse – websites that delivered free content (and some
paid) are now disappearing as the general public now only downloaded the
free stuff and not the paid tracks. With the demise of the 7digital
indiestore service shutting down on in September 2010 an avenue for the
democratic production of paid for and free downloads by independent
artists has closed. There are dozens of other viable alternatives for
free mp3 downloads out there but for how long?
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