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were sold on a subscription basis and, at the time, none were sold to the public. Like other transcriptions companies, the company tried to move away from using music that required its subscribing radio stations to pay additional fees to copyright holders, and began to use
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in the world and, for its subscribers, offered a library of over 300 selections with a guarantee of 120 new selections every month.
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