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Trading of Bootlegged Music Online is Wider Than Ever.
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 6--More people are trading more bootlegged music online than ever before despite the recording industry's relentless legal battle to quash Internet piracy.
The industry successfully shut down Napster, the rogue site that popularized music swapping, but new statistics reveal that online music exchange continues to grow. A new generation of file-swapping sites have risen up from the Internet underground to fill the void.
"It's like playing whack-a-mole: You kill one of these guys, and another one pops up to take its place," said Rob Batchelder, research director for Gartner Dataquest, a technology research firm in Stamford, Conn.
Exact numbers are elusive, but analysts estimate a ...
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