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Originally Posted by Some Guy
I disagree. If I recall, it did a great deal. They got law enforcement involved and when people were threatened with fines and jail time these music-swapping sites vanished rather quickly.
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Um, you are living on earth, right?
The MPAA and RIAA litigation did nothing but increasing piracy by publicising how easy it is to pirate music to all and sundry.
This is why they stopped all of that end user litigation.
You don't need the music swapping sites like napster when you've got torrents, and usenet and file lockers
Just google any album you like with .mp3 in the search tag. Hey presto. Instant piracy.
What happened was the music industry tried to keep selling shit to people they didn't want. People wanted to buy one track for a buck. iTunes launched, and people did buy one track for a buck. Many, many times over.