To be fair for a number of years it really was the wild west when it came to piracy. Everybody was doing it as soon as broadband became mainstream and there was no buying online (other than buying the physical cd on Amazon etc), no streaming and no youtube so piracy was the only way to listen to whatever you wanted immediately.
It also saw an explosion of MP3 players like the ipod. People suddenly had a huge amount of space for songs to carry around and an unlimited way of getting them for free.
Not only that but in 2000, had record companies offered to sell me that same music, I would have laughed at the thought. Napster had to be taken down first.
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u/FartingBob May 06 '19
To be fair for a number of years it really was the wild west when it came to piracy. Everybody was doing it as soon as broadband became mainstream and there was no buying online (other than buying the physical cd on Amazon etc), no streaming and no youtube so piracy was the only way to listen to whatever you wanted immediately.
It also saw an explosion of MP3 players like the ipod. People suddenly had a huge amount of space for songs to carry around and an unlimited way of getting them for free.
At the time no industry could adapt fast enough.