Originally Posted by RawAlex

"adapt" - that is the simple way of saying "give up or give in". The reality is that the TGP model that was started was similar to Fusker... and guess what, that didn't survive either. TGPs today aren't what the first ones were, that was an unsupportable business model and it was replaced by something else called TGP that is what we have today.

Napster and MP3s... music started out being given away is huge amounts, and that was an unsupportable business model. Too many people, the general public, everyone had napster and was downloading music for free. The music industry pushed and replaced it with such things as Itunes. There is still a huge problem with free music, but the music industry ended up with a pay model that works. yes, the adapted, but they also didn't stand around and let the sites like Napster to just keep going. If they hadn't, the music industry would have pretty much disappeared already.

Give in. Nope. Come up with new ways to make money WHILE protecting copyright, sure.