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For most of the past decade the music industry focused on suing people to try to prevent piracy. Over the years the Recording In

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问题    For most of the past decade the music industry focused on suing people to try to prevent piracy. Over the years the Recording Industry Association of America has accused 18,000 Internet users of engaging in illegal file-sharing. Most of them settled, though two cases went to court this year. In both cases the defendants lost and were ordered to pay damages. But the industry has realized that such cases encourage the publication of embarrassing headlines more than they discourage piracy, for as each network was shut down, another would sprout in its place.
   【R1】__________
   And in the past two years new music sites and services have increased rapidly. Spotify, an entirely legal service, offers free, advertising-supported streams; paying customers are spared the ads and can use the service on smart-phones. Nokia’s Comes With Music scheme includes a year’s unlimited downloads in the price of some mobile phones. TDC, a Danish telecoms operator, bundles access to a music service with its broadband packages.
   All of these different, legal music services offer the "celestial jukebox"—whatever you want, right away, from the Internet—that made Napster, an illegal file-sharing service so compelling when it appeared on the scene a decade ago. 【R2】__________ That is because there is growing evidence that this large amount of new services adds up to an attractive alternative to piracy for many. In June a poll of Swedish users of file-sharing software found that 60% had cut back or stopped using it; of those, half had switched to advertising-supported streaming services like Spotify. In Denmark, over 40% of subscribers to TDC’s broadband-plus-music package also said they were making fewer illegal downloads as a result. Music executives reckon people are moving from file-sharing networks to Spotify, though they may continue to download some music illegally.
   【R3】__________
   In particular, a new approach called "graduated response" is gaining momentum. As its name indicates, it involves ratcheting up the pressure on users of file-sharing software by sending them warnings by e-mail and letter and then cutting off their Internet access if they fail to respond after three requests. Graduated-response laws were introduced earlier this year in Taiwan and South Korea, and were passed in France last month. Other countries are expected to follow suit.
   【R4】__________
   The country also boasts one of the broadest selections of legal music services: Spotify and Comes With Music were both launched there before most other countries, and two of Britain’s biggest Internet-service providers have borrowed TDC’s bundled-music model. This suggests that when it comes to discouraging music piracy, benefits may in fact be more important than punishments.
   【R5】__________
   The best way to discourage it is to offer a diverse range of attractive, legal alternatives. The music industry has taken a decade to work this out, but it has now done so. Other industries should benefit from its experience—and follow its example.
   [A] Yet in Britain music file-sharing seems to be in decline even though a graduated-response Jaw has yet to be introduced.
   [B] True, revenue from these services will be less than from CD sales, but it is much better than nothing. The recorded-music industry will get smaller—but it will not disappear.
   [C] The trouble with the old practice of suing people for swapping music is that it is slow, expensive and limited. In most countries, being prosecuted for file-sharing is a little like being struck by lightning.
   [D] Yet as piracy flourished on illegal networks, legal alternatives also started to appear. Apple launched its iTunes Music Store, offering downloads at $0.99 per track a few years ago. Many others have followed.
   [E] The recorded-music business is not about to lurch into growth. A big proportion of revenues—more than half just about everywhere—still comes from CD albums, which are gradually falling out of favor.
   [F] To be sure, the benefits of more attractive legal services are being accompanied by innovative forms of punishment.
   [G] All of this offers a lesson for other types of media, such as films and video games. Piracy thrives because it satisfies an unmet demand.
【R1】
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答案D
解析 空格前谈到尽管音乐行业致力打击盗版，盗版网站依然猖獗。空格后主要列举了一些合法下载音乐的网站和服务。D的首句承接上文讲的“盗版猖獗”问题，引出下文“合法产品开始出现”这一信息，起到承上启下的作用，过渡连贯自然；其中，legal alternatives对应苹果公司的iTunes下载服务以及空格后列举的其他合法下载音乐的网站和服务。D的末句Many others have followed则作为空格后内容的总起句，与空格后形成总一分结构。故选D。
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