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Best News For The Music Industry In Ages

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Jan 18 2008 12:00am EDT

Best News for the Music Industry in Ages

Talk about something no one saw coming: The best new way to make money on music is to sell it as part of a video game and let people pretend to play the songs.

Of course, the other way to make a lot of money on music is to sell it as ring tones.

Think either of those outcomes were part of any record label's vision five years ago?

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