Then, abruptly, the music stopped as the hedge funds who were supporting Apple into their fiscal year end on October 31st, began to bail out.

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Nearly half of the people who had stopped or sharply reduced their music downloading cited those services as the reason for stopping.

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The report said as many as 40% of people who used illegal music services in 2011 stopped doing so in 2012.

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