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Originally Posted by pieter
iTunes and the iPod (or other mp3 players) would never have gotten as popular as they are now if file-sharing of copyrighted music wasn't popular. Do you really believe it would have become mainstream for 15 year old kids to have a device that holds up to 80gb of music if the only way to fill it up would be to pay for every song?
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Since 15-year-old kids used to plonk down to the record store every weekend and pay for hundreds of albums and singles... frankly,
Hells yes. And if every file-sharing site nuked itself tomorrow, they'd go right back to it.
iPod may have been popular because of the sheer volume of MP3s available to it, but iTunes became popular because it was good, fast, easy, and cheap.
Speaking for myself, I bought an MP3 player to listen to the few hundred albums I already had. 95% or more of my player's music was already in my collection, the rest includes downloaded content.