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Music piracy continuing to decline: report
Illegal music downloading by American consumers fell last year, continuing a trend from 2005, a survey showed. The survey from NPD Group found that the number of consumers using peer-to-peer services to download music declined 17 percent in 2012. When file sharing peaked in 2005, one in five Internet users…
Study: Health reform saved consumers $1.5 billion in 2011
President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) saved American consumers $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket health insurance premium costs in 2011, a study published Wednesday (PDF) claimed. Despite this, benefits of the law were not applied equally across all health insurance markets, leading the study’s authors to propose that stronger rules…
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