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| only natural to see millions of people surfing the Net in | | | | browsing habits. These applications considerably slow |
| a search for quality yet affordable hip hop music. | | | | down your computer's performance and can even |
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| included in most music databases. | | | | Risk 4 - Virus attacks. |
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| involved in the process of downloading off the Internet | | | | directly from another user's computer, virus attacks |
| and know how to avoid them. | | | | can easily destroy your computer and even affect |
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| format that is compatible with your music player. The | | | | you. |
| aspect of quality is harder to check, because not all | | | | Risk 5 - Mislabeled and corrupt files. |
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| among the users. | | | | their users. Corrupt and wrong files are even more |
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| File-sharing networks as well as some other free | | | | |