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by Marc on April 25, 2007

The online services had claimed that a download was not a transmission and that such a fee would be "double dipping", as they already pay the music publishers for both streaming and downloaded music.
The court agreed, "Although we acknowledge that the term 'perform' should be broadly construed ... we can conceive of no construction that extends it to the copying of a digital file from one computer to another."
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