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| | Wired News: Sony Joins Personal Stereo Queue |
 | | With stores selling only vinyl records or eight-track tapes, people used relatively new-fangled cassette tapes to mix their favorite tracks, stirring a pot of legal controversy over whether it should be legal to copy those records for free. |
 | | Infinitely copyable music circulating on the Internet for free may give record company executives night sweats now, but are likely to be just as commonplace as personal mixes on cassettes and MiniDiscs are today. |
 | | The point was to celebrate the history of the Walkman while generating some hype for its new MP3-friendly "personal stereo system," the MS Walkman, as well as several other new devices. |
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