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Average Teen’s iPod Has $800 Of Pirated Music

Jun 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPods & Portable Media Players

According to a new survey, the average teenager’s iPod has about $800 of pirated music on it:
On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) in [...]

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Sony To Pay $1.5 Million To Settle CD Lawsuit

Dec 20th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, General

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million, and kick in thousands more in customer refunds, to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers computers without consumer’s knowledge.
The settlements, announced Tuesday, cover lawsuits over CDs loaded with one of two types of copy-protection software [...]

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