While effective exploitation of recent technological breakthroughs has

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While effective exploitation of recent technological breakthroughs has been a winning strategy for the entertainment industry throughout the last century, a number of major entertainment industries are in danger of near-extinction at the hands of the same technological forces. As evidenced by the evolution from record album to cassette to compact disc, the music recording industry has been—until now—consistently able to find a new, even more profitable products to replace those that had been rendered obsolete. However, there exists no such solution to the complications arising from the recent rise in easily shareable digital music formats.
Although some experts point out that the increased availability of music will lead to higher profits for record companies in the long run, many within the industry are skeptical. It may be true that this increased availability will garner more consumers for artists that are represented by record companies; still, it is unlikely that such consumers will purchase compact discs while inexpensive digital alternatives are available. Some companies have had limited success selling digital music one song at a time, but this strategy does not generate nearly as much profit as have other methods in the past. A decade ago, a music consumer could have purchased a full-length compact disc for $15, and now he or she is far more likely to purchase only
three or four of its songs for around $1 each, thereby incurring a massive loss in income for the record label.

Which of the following can be properly inferred about music consumers from the second paragraph of the passage?
A. Technologies that are profitable for record companies do not increase the number of music consumers that buy the music of a single artist.
B. Music consumers once purchased full-length compact discs when they may have been satisfied with only a few songs.
C. Technological breakthroughs in the music recording industry in the past have not decreased record company profits.
D. Compact discs were once at least as popular among music consumers as were cassette tapes.
E. If record companies raised their prices for individual, digital songs, consumers would continue to buy them at the current rate.

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