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Originally Posted by gracie
>Then Apple came along with a decent music catalog and much less restrictive >DRM and digital sales became a reality. People started buying digital music >rather than pirating it.
THAT's what I was trying to get at... Apple made the music so ubiquitous and cost effective to buy that it wasn't worth the effort to pirate. I'm sure it still happens, but I have to believe legitimate sales increased considerably once things were easily and cost-effectively available.
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And yet ironically, Apple had the exact opposite effect on ebooks: they drove the pricing UP by agreeing to and legitimizing the agency pricing model, which Amazon was then also forced to adopt.
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