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"When we started no-one could see beyond vinyl," Nick Mason says. "Then there was the cassette revolution, then there was the CD and it just goes on and on. And one never quite foresaw how it would pan out."
The contract lawyers did not foresee it either - which led the band to take EMI to court earlier this year to decide whether a pre-download deal applied to digital sales.But today's deal-makers are taking no chances, Mason says
