When Napster was first released and started getting widespread usage, sales of music went up 6% because of people being able to find new music to enjoy or music from arrtists they liked but didn't know was out there. So this led to a try before you buy and it worked. The RIAA stepped in and ruined things. They didn't see that this was working. Then because the RIAA thought that they were losing sales due to piracy, they decided tor raise prices. Now all this has done is led to more piracy. In trying to stop what wasn't a problem, the RIAA made it into a problem.
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