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Originally Posted by memyselfI
I totally disagree about offering downloads in 1997. Back then America was not all that computer savvy. Most people got online via America Online and internet speeds were not as fast as they are today. Hard Drives were huge at a whopping 20 GB.
If people had been introduced to downloading music when the internet was really in it's infancy then we'd know no differently and a generation, perhaps two, would have been downloading music directly from the labels and thinking nothing of a deal of paying .25 cents a song for less than CD quality sounding music. Afterall, back then a download for a single song might have taken an hour via dialup.
It was really all about creating a mindset. The pirates succeeded in creating it because a vaccum was there.
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I totally disagree. There were tens of millions of college students across the world with T1 access on campus that were file sharing. It had nothing to do with the "music business" or pricing - it was FREE.
FREE. Just like all the freakin' idiots at Costco and Sam's that line up for free samples.
Are the free samples really that good at those places? Or do people just like FREE goods?