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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
That was the whole point.
gideongallery is trying to imply piracy has increased sales when there are whole new ways and reasons for people to buy music that didn't exist in 1999.
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Not only that...but one can only imagine how incredibly lucrative the music industry would be right now without piracy but with all the new technologies.
For instance...I'd LIKE to go buy The Cult "Sonic Temple" CD to put in my car (I'm gonna go see them on Thursday night). But...thanks to piracy of music, every music store in the world is shut down. So I have to go to Walmart or Best Buy. And guess what? They don't have it!
So now the only choice I have would be to try and find .mp3 compressed versions online and get each song one by one...or order it off of amazon and wait for it to be delivered.
No more going to the music store and getting what I want when I want. And my fond memories of going to the big music stores like Peaches (I lived in Florida) were finding the record I wanted, and THEN seeing something else and impulse buying.
Those days are gone. Buying it all online can sometimes be real convenient (if a song is brand new), but it took away all the fun of getting an album and it also made music seem sort of insignificant compared to what it used to feel like to go find the record, open the package, etc.