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Mon 01 Jan 2007Downside of downloadingWhat's the story with downloading music?'When you download music you download communism" went the spoof poster, purporting to be from the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) back in the last century when the internet was still regarded by many people as little more than a haven for hucksters and pornographers.Napster and Audiogalaxy had made free audio downloads easy to find and record industry executives and hard rock drummers alike were trying to make sense of this appalling new vista, slapping law suits on anyone they could accuse of copyright theft.