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Newsnight's Robin Denselow looks at the current trend of downloading music from the Internet - often illegally - which has been enabled by the new MP3 format. This is causing the music industry so much concern, but should they be embracing the internet, or trying to police it?

He speaks to artists, industry insiders and retailers, including Asian Dub Foundation's Steve Chandra Savale and Dr Das, folk singer Kate Rusby, Island Records managing director Mark Moreau, Ernesto Schmitt and Omer Karacan of peoplesound.com, Music Week editor Ajax Scott and Andy Lown of Tower Records.

Clip taken from Newsnight, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 19 August, 1999.





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