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A digital download (also known as a digital single or a paid digital download) is an official and legal music single available for purchase through an online store. Popular examples of online music stores that sell digital singles and albums include the iTunes Store and Napster.
Digital downloads are often encoded with Digital Rights Management that restricts making additional copies of the music or play purchased songs on a playing device from a competing hardware manufacturer. For example, songs purchased from iTunes will only play on an iPod.
Legal music downloads have existed since 2000. Paid digital download may suffer from the development of techniques enabling the digital extraction of songs played on the radio which, although offering lower quality sound, is also legal.
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