Ian Brown on Nostr: "Record companies won the [filesharing] battle but they did not win the war. Their ...
"Record companies won the [filesharing] battle but they did not win the war. Their intransigence left a vacuum. Even after #Napster was shuttered in 2001, digital music piracy continued. Then came Apple’s #iTunes. For record companies, charging 99 cents a song was better than pirates giving it away for free. But labels received nothing from lucrative #iPod sales, which skyrocketed on the back of the newly available legal digital music.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5bfa8508-d4cd-41d6-ba92-047522e61740Published at
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