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ЕГЭ по английскому языку. № 9. Делитесь музыкой с друзьями.
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Sharing
music with friends
Brenda is a nineteen-year
old full-time college student, and she earns money
working part time as a waitress. Brenda loves
to listen to music like most young people, but
she can’t A22 the high CD prices that record companies
A23 for popular CDs. Brenda says that
the prices of CDs are ridiculously high at $17
to $20 each and there are only two or three good
songs on each CD.
She A24 an apartment with three other roommates.
She pays her own A25 and she also pays most of her A26
. Her solution to expensive CDs is
to download or copy music from the Internet. Brenda
and millions of other people are called «downloaders»
because they download free file-sharing software
and music. When Brenda later gives, shares, or
trades her music files free over the Internet,
she is also an uploader.
She considers herself an active music uploader,
but the music industry considers her a A27
. From 2001 on, the Recording Industry
Association of America has sued and fined dozens
of file-sharing services, for uploading music
files, and hundreds of people, for A28
the law by downloading music.