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Article: Listening to consumers' and record labels' taste in music: Napster showed that for any new way of selling music to succeed, it needs the compliance of the record industry, which is just what VMS has secured for its CD kiosks. (STRATEGIC PLAY).
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- New Media Age
- Article date:
- October 11, 2001
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