And the record companies made big bucks by distributing everything as $20 CDs even if the consumer really only wanted a single song off the album. Of course, the reason why they wanted the single was because the other 8 tracks weren't very good and only there so the company could justify charging $20.

It's not like the record companies were completely blameless. They didn't care about their customers, they only cared about the artists they signed because they were legally obligated to, and no one who cares about music is mourning their downfall.

Rip meant taking physical audio CD's you own and migrating them to mp3.

The slogan wasn't Download Mix Burn. Apple has always been strong on the IP end of things.

Right but after "Rip" is "Mix," i.e. create a playlist of different tracks, then "Burn," burn them to a disc (as an Audio CD or a data disc with MP3 or AAC files). Since it's the the 00's version of making a mix tape, that burnt disc is probably going to someone who didn't buy the CDs in the first place, i.e. copyright infringement by distributing works without permission.

The British record industry in the Eighties had a "home taping is killing music" campaign, the could've updated it to "home burning is killing music."

> Rip meant taking physical audio CD's you own and migrating them to mp3

Rip meant taking physical audio CD's you, or anyone you knew, owned. One kid buys a CD, and the next day it's in every kid in the school's iTunes library. I think iTunes even had an ability to just grab and copy MP3s from anybody's library that was broadcasting on the network, circa 2006-07.