In the last decade, while people downloaded music illegally to their desktop computers, they happily paid small amounts of money on their cellphones to download ring tones and send text messages.

在过去的十年当中，尽管人们非法下载音乐到他们的台式电脑中，但是同时他们也乐意支付小额的钱用于手机下载铃声和发送短信。

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Music, software, and apps are the most popular content that internet users have paid to access or download, although the range of paid online content is quite varied and widespread.

尽管付费在线内容的范围很广，但音乐、软件和应用程序是互联网用户付费访问或下载的最受欢迎的内容。

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ITunes was a pioneer in digital media, and its share of the paid music download business stood at 64% in the second quarter.

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There were an estimated 150, 000 subscribers to paid music-download services at the end of 2001, according to IDC, with the number expected to rise to 10 million by 2005.

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Meanwhile, the growing willingness of music companies to sell song downloads without usage restrictions might eventually eat away at iTunes' dominance of the paid download market.

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