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1 edit | Jobs fixed this in music sorta Remember just before iTunes? the recording industry was in shambles (still is sorta).
Jobs reinvented, or perhaps simply commercialized, the notion of buying songs on the web and the recording industry KHA for saving their business.
That's a different business model. Not that people still don't steal music but I would think the numbers point to the success of that as an alternative form of doing business.
The rum runners of napster simply showed more commercially minded folks (Jobs) how to make money. And Jobs told the Recording industry to pound sand when the asked for a raise.
No. I think the pirates are perhaps wrong but they are no more wrong than Joe Kennedy who made a killing bootlegging booze. He understood the disequilibrium in the market and survived (legally) until prohibition was lifted.
Same but different here. Give it time. Pirates will turn into Businessmen at the established players expense (Kaazza-->Skype--->$4.2B). |
