[QUOTE=Slutboat;17570905]You guys think that because there are still Limewire and Torrents available that the war against piracy in mainstream has been futile? Wake the fuck up - back when Napster came out NO ONE BOUGHT MUSIC and the recording industry was in total ruin.
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you do realize that itunes didn't exist at the time, you need to buy the record and then rip it to mp3 when napster was around
napster forced the record companies to sell songs individually
as for piracy decreasing the music industry own studies say it increasing
according to their numbers
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_...s/dmr2009.html
"95% of all music downloads are unauthorized" in 2009
of course the problem with those numbers is fair use authorized is defined as "unauthorized" in that study and that the point.