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Article: Cellphones become jukeboxes as ring-tone sales take off.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 30, 2004
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Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK -- Let's say you get a popular song stuck in your head and you want to hear it more frequently than when it comes on the radio. You could go out and buy the CD, or you could do what millions of Americans with cellphones are doing: make the song your ring tone.
Scores of people are downloading digitized snippets of their favorite tunes - from the "Sex and the City" theme to hip-hop song "Hey Ya" by OutKast. While downloading hasn't typically brought joy to the music industry, this is one technological development that's prompting more talk of spreadsheets than lawsuits.
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