If you need a comparison for this day and age, imagine if someone built another railway line right next to every Amtrak train track and then ran the service for nothing, and then Amtrak came out and said, "Yes we know the free track is there, but the moral thing to do is support us."Įventually the music industry worked out that it couldn't just bash people with the proverbial stick, and it created the carrot of way cheaper legal downloading and streaming services, while also going around closing down the websites that had almost destroyed its business.
So there was a fair amount of delight in sticking it to them and downloading terabytes worth of free songs.
The entertainment industry generally treated the public with disregard, and people felt ripped off. Of course, when Napster launched, places like Virgin Megastores and Tower Records were charging in excess of $20 for an album and often more for a film or box set.
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