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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
This, too, has a parallel in the VCR years, when major movie copiers (duplicating and selling hundreds to thousands of illicit copies to the public) would get busted, while authorities turned a blind eye to individuals that copied movies for each other. Keeping the former under control was enough to allow them to ignore the losses from the latter.
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Right, and the same thing has happened with illicit CD and DVD duplicators.
Keep in mind, too, that while there are some big players in the multimedia content industries, there are also a lot of small guys who are just scraping by, and really feel the sting of piracy. Most musicians, writers and artists fall into this category. They don't make enough money to do it full time.