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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Good point well made. Nothing was pirated before Napster.
People weren't sued and those high profile court cases that didn't happen didn't advertise P2P to people who wouldn't have known about it, thus increasing the usage.
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I'm not sure if you are calling me an idiot, being sarcastic or actually agreeing with me.
I understand there was piracy and music trading before napster, but napster really took it mainstream and made it part of every day society. Millions of people suddenly started using these programs and the music industry stood by and let bands like Metallica do the fighting for them.
It wasn't until after Metallica and Dr. Dre started going after Napster that the record labels stepped in and helped get them shut down. The day Napster started raising venture capitol the record companies should have gotten together and sued anyone and everyone who had anything to do with the program including the users. They needed to send a message right then and failed to do so. They were undereducated on the technology and behind the power curve on how things were transforming on the internet and it cost them.