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Stephen Downes

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Though this article is about the music industry, educational content vendors would do well to take note. Jimmy Guterman, himself a veteran of the paid content wars, writes that the music industry should "Reduce CD prices, abandon copy protection and invest in consumer-friendly technologies, [and] abandon current online efforts and buy Kazaa." Quite right. Until the content industry embraces widespread file-sharing it will continue to experience declining sales and revenues.

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