(sub. req.): Commercial music-download services in Europe are being stymied by a hodgepodge of legal and bureaucratic hurdles. And where online sales options are unavailable, all the consumers continue to go to the pirate sites..reports WSJ.
Europe’s downloading doldrums revolve around a dispute over the size of the license fees that reward musicians and others with royalties when their songs are played.
The biggest lesson, which I am learning everyday: there’s no such thing as pan-European. Period.
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