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I don't disagree in theory with what you're saying Adraco. But it wasn't just okay in the 1980's. It was okay in the 1960's and 1970's too. And long before that as well. My dad is an antique dealer...and not only was there an Edison phonograph with dual cylinders to make copies, but a lot of folks back in the 1800's would just take a blank wax cylinder, put it on a phonograph and bring another phonograph in front of it and record a copy.
What I meant was that people sharing stuff amongst friends has always been around.
But big websites monetizing it and using people like pawns to do the stealing for them and then monetize the traffic has led us to what is happening today with entire sites being ripped and given away for free to millions of people. Thus completely devaluing the product.
That never existed until the internet age.
That's what I meant when I said that people who produce things never cared about people sharing with their buddies. If I made a cassette copy of the latest Pink Floyd record back in the 1970's and gave it to my best friend...he wasn't gonna be satisfied until he had his own copy of Dark Side Of The Moon without the generational loss and hiss of the shitty cassette copy.
Fast forward to now...and millions of people can just download it online for free in CD digital quality.
That's the difference for music, and why the only place you can buy music is at Best Buy or Walmart. No more music stores. That industry has been all but destroyed and tens of thousands of jobs lost because of piracy.
BIG difference between friends sharing a tape compared to internet piracy and file sharing when applied to the real world.
And the factor that makes it completely different...is the guy running rapidshare or hotfile or piratebay making millions of dollars without lifting a finger while the folks who did the work, took the risks and had the creativity to begin with...starve.
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