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Re:Lessons from Spotify by nerdponx on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:54AM (#16537210)
adjusts for the increase in worldwide internet use as well as bandwidth

Why? The fact that it was physically hard to pirate movies in 1997 is part of why people didn't do it.

Through YouTube

iTunes Music predates YouTube being a viable music platform. I'm talking about filesharing.

Music-ripping tools were ubiquitous at the time

I'm talking about pre-CD-drive.

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Re:Lessons from Spotify by kakarot on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:44PM (#16541324)
Netflix as a streaming service wasn't pre-CD-drive.
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