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The
record company EMI is planning a new service which will allow people
to copy music from the Internet without breaking the law. BBC Business
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6th
June 2001
Copying
music from the Internet
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EMI's
artists include the Spice Girls, the Beatles and pop stars Robbie
Williams and Janet Jackson. Like the rest of the industry,
it's struggling to cope with technological change that makes
it much easier for people to copy music without paying for it. Music
can be stored in a personal computer, it can be passed anywhere
in the world via the internet, millions of people own the equipment
needed to record or burn their own unauthorised compact
discs. Unofficial online music services like that provided by
the American group Napaster have proved wildly popular.
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the
industry: the music industry, including record companies and
recording artists
to
burn a CD: the common term for recording content on to a compact
disc
unauthorised
compact discs: CDs which are made without the permission of
the record company and recording artist
wildly:
very
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To
tackle the issue, EMI has teamed up with a computer
software company to develop the first ever service that allows music
lovers to legitmately make their own CDs on their own CD recording
equipment of songs on which EMI holds the copyright. The music
will be downloaded from the internet in encrypted form.
The difficult bit comes in designing software that gives the copyright
holder power over what use is made of the music once its in the customer's
computer. It may, for example, be possible to require additional payments
everytime a new CD is burned. EMI says it'll talk about pricing when
the service is ready to launch. In theory it could do away
with the need for dedicated music shops, but industry analysts
say many people like to go to places where they can listen to music
they haven't heard before. But, of course, that too can be done over
the internet. |
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to
tackle the issue: to try to find an answer to a problem
teamed
up with: worked together with
holds
the copyright: owns the rights to a piece of music so that people
have to ask for your permission to copy or use it
downloaded:
copied files onto your computer
encrypted
form: coded so that it can't be used without permission
do away with: remove
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