I lived in a town that is now dead thanks to people downloading free music. The entire town relied on Capital/ EMI. Now its a ghost town thanks to torrents.
No, the Music Industry killed the music business with their greed. No artist has ever received a dime from " pirating" fines! Also, a study paid for by the RIAA was almost burie4d because........it showed that people who download music " illegally" bought and paid for more music on average, than those that don't! Artist get about $.25 a cd. I believe I read that Apple pays even less per download.......So who is stealing from artists?
Yes, some of the "pirates" never buy anything. But even Microsoft believes that "pirating" is good advertising. They've worked hard to limit it, but they also intentionally let some of it slide.
Something much more serious happened if it killed your town, I believe it was called Capital/EMI..............

