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Originally Posted by Robbie
Paul, looking at your graph doesn't show the "internet" killed album sales.
PIRACY killed album sales. The huge decline is when Napster and Kazaa were giving everything away for free. Guess what...people stopped buying.
That was before a lot of new technology that is available today was here. There was no ITunes or much of any way to buy music online. It was all stolen.
And people were ripping the music onto blank CD's to play in their car.
Piracy fucked the music industry. Not the "internet".
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Piracy never was a threat before the Internet. People copying tape to tape was never the threat to the music industry that the Internet is. And piracy to the downloader Just means free. Give it to them for free and most will not pay. Or is even that wrong?