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Re:Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly m... by twoodfin on Monday December 19, 2011 @12:24PM (#3370270)
> That myth that "this will make it hard for the 99%" thing has been trotted out during every single anti-piracy failure ever. (There have been no lasting successes.)

I would call the dramatic decline in the relative size of the peer-to-peer music "sharing" world to the iTunes world a lasting success. Steve was right that 99¢/track was a winning proposition, but it's easy to forget how effective the RIAA's legal and technical jamming efforts were at pushing Napster and friends out of the mainstream.

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Re:Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly m... by Natsu on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:13PM (#3370950)
That's not making it harder for people to infringe, that's making it easier for people to do things legitimately. I think I've posted many times on another article saying that it's an incredibly good way to do business and the resounding success of those who make it easy to legitimately acquire and enjoy their stuff proves it.

Yet even now, there are still people who will screw the fans in a futile attempt to stop piracy. And even when iTunes opened, it was trivial to download anything in the catalog for free. Yet we can see how popular it is for people to do things legitimately in spite of this.

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