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The issue of the means through which it can be allowed for music online to exist, and the legality and commercial nature of these programs, has proven to be highly contentious in the era of the widespread availability of online services. The music industry has long based its business model on technology which was difficult or nearly impossible to reproduce effectively as a viable means for gaining music without much in the way of cost. As analogue methods for sounding recording have been edged out and supplanted by increasingly flexible and accessible digital technology, culminating in the current period in online music, the record industry has found itself less and less assured of its ability to control the dissemination of the music it finances and thus less capable of assuring a high profit margin for backers and investors. Though there is much music online and readily available in the contemporary digital landscape, it has not occurred with past and ongoing dissent on the part of the recording industry against the means for online music, which has taken a number of different forms, including various legal charges and suits, and has been accorded a mixed reception in terms of its ability … Continue reading