Word: partida
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...Jamie Partida is facing the music. Like many of her fellow music fans across the country, the University of Michigan senior visits the file-sharing website Kazaa and occasionally downloads a few songs free. The sports-management major, 21, knows it's wrong. "It's unfair to the artist because you're not paying for it," she admits. But the price of CDs is such that she never considered quitting. Until last week, that is, when hundreds of file-sharing consumers found themselves slammed with lawsuits from the recording industry. "Now I'm a bit scared," says Partida. "I know...
...Partida and others like her decide to go legit, that could signal the long-awaited dawn of a potentially huge industry: the sale of digital music online. A gaggle of companies has struggled for years to create such a market, hampered first by uncooperative record labels and then by free file-sharing alternatives. But change is coming fast. The overnight success of Apple's 99¢-per-song iTunes Music Store--it sold its 10 millionth song this month--has awakened consumers to legal downloading options. Iconic acts like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles have begun allowing their songs...
Behind powerful kills by Denham and Stevenson, Harvard jumped out to a 20-9 lead and later increased it to 28-14. MIT outside hitter Ramon Partida kept the Engineers in the game, but the Crimson ultimately prevailed...
...Partida made sure the Crimson would not sweep the match, and after several resounding kills, catalyzed the charge that gave the Engineers the third game...
Harvard returned to form in the fourth game, and led 5-2 after four kills by Stevenson. The Crimson continued its tough defense, with Mosier amassing several blocks at key moments of the game. Harvard finished off the Engineers despite Partida's best efforts...