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The Fall of Music DownloadsAfter learning to live with less profitable digital sales in the post-CD era, the music industry is getting hit again. Downloads of songs to iPods, computers, and other devices have stalled, researcher Nielsen SoundScan reports, growing just 0.3 percent this year. Even worse for music companies, an earlier digital moneymaker, ringtones, peaked in 2007 at $714 million and have since fallen 24 percent, according to the latest data from researcher SNL Kagan. "Digital downloads are clearly becomingJuly 1, 2010