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Music downloading from the net is here to stay. Majors and copyright owners better look around and start running.

Users swarm every day to the p2p networks such as Kazaa, LimeWire or eDonkey, to exchange millions of songs. And numbers are growing fast.

To this file sharing stampede, players in the music industry have two choices:

• Either to set their feet as firmly as they can on the ground, cover their head like an ostrich and pretend that nothing happens
• or try run faster than the herd, set the path for the music business and hope that some in the stampede will follow.

Apple has sold more than 500 milion songs since they launched their online shop iTunes on April 28, 2003, and hit a milion song sales in just 4 days of service in Japan.

The US Supreme Court ruled that Grokster encouraged piracy by promoting file sharing in the case of MGM v. Grokster.

Spot the ostrich?