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Napster stabbed a knife through the heart of the burgeoning CD industry when the music-sharing website launched in 1999. It was a short-lived venture, but signalled a lasting change in music consumption patterns. Copyright-infringement laws eventually pulled it down. Later, sites like Limewire didn’t survive long either. But the direction they took led to the streaming platforms that are par for the course these days. And CDs never stood a real chance again.

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