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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. It's not nearly as easy to trade music these days. I can't help but feel if tube sites vanished sales would increase for everyone. I'm not saying things would suddenly revert to how they were years ago but I have little doubt that they'd at least increase.
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Originally Posted by Some Guy
Again, I disagree.
http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/inter...-piracy-study/
Most people aren't tech-savvy enough to use torrents, file lockers, or any of that stuff. When programs like Napster, Kazaa, and Limewire were taken down most resorted to just buying music again. I know a ton of people who used to download music all the time using those programs and obviously don't anymore since they no longer exist. Now they just shell out money for music since they don't understand that you can still find all of that music for free if you search hard enough. The casual user isn't going to bother learning about torrents and all that stuff.
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Yeah, all those law enforcement agencies really had an effect.
