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Free downloads pay off for musicians

Forget "pay what you want." The new model for the music industry may be "pay it forward."

Coldplay has become the latest band to discover that giving away your music - even a little bit for a little time - may, in the long run, end up being worth more than the conventional model of only selling it.

To drum up publicity for its new single, "Violet Hill," which was released last week,...

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