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As sales of recorded music drop precipitously, the music industry has pointed a blaming finger at the dramatic growth of file sharing among individuals who search, share, and download music files from each other. Surely if consumers can get their favorite songs for free, the reasoning goes, theyre not making tracks to the nearest record store to pay $18 for a CD.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/04/9-fileshare1-450-2.jpg