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technology specialists predict the decline of the CD and ensure that its demise will accelerate in the coming years

It now predicted Internet conference MidemNet music that takes place in Cannes. "

music sales, especially CDs, then also file online music

fall sharply. The future is in subscriptions and free music funded through advertising

", said the digital music pioneer Michael Robertson MidemNet through a video link.

Robertson, who heads the company MP3Tunes offering file space for music on the web, could not appear personally at the conference because it is currently in a legal dispute with EMI and other companies.

companies sued him in court of the United States for violate copyright. Robertson had been sued by

MP3.com sharing portal, founded 10 years ago.

"
The music industry has a tendency to sue any new technology arising
. But this way can never benefit from the innovations, for example, has not won a penny from the sale of MP3 players, "said Robertson. Meanwhile

who two years ago was at the head of EMI, Eric Nicoli

said that there were many things that the recording industry

did poorly at the beginning of the digital revolution a decade ago. "The industry is extremely hostile to any change

. That position was not exactly helpful when
were inaugurated the digital possibilities, "he added.

However, Nicoli said EMI had decided that, as a first label, would abolish the copy protection (DRM, for its acronym in English) for your music. This trend has other supporters as the iTunes Music Store
of Apple, which announced the passage earlier this month.

are countless music files and can be purchased as files

unrestricted MP3 playback.

"There are many innovations related to digital music, but come the dark side of Internet, not the music industry," Robertson said market developments.

In the past year, digital music sales had a significant increase (approximately 25 percent ), announced yesterday the recording industry association IFPI. But while the legal record sales figures of around 1,400 million music files, illegal acquisitions come to 40,000 million files. In the latter case one sees a penny of what occurred: no musicians or record labels.

Source: DPA