The introduction of unlimited mobile music services such as Nokia’s Comes With Music and Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow plus could result in British consumers downloading a staggering 2.1bn tracks a year, according to new research.Services that allow consumers to download as many tracks as they want – and keep all, or at least some, of them at the end of their contract – are likely to reduce online music piracy but exacerbate the decline in sales of CDs, according to the market researcher TNS Technology.
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