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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Uhm, I think you forgot something. Back in the day, one could buy 45s with 2 songs.
Though you are correct when we lost vinyl (new) for a bit.
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The thing that you are both missing is that a majority of people listened to music on the radio, so people were use to the idea that music was free. Also back then, there were a lot of used record stores, much like there were a lot of used book stores. With cassettes, people got in the habit of making copies of albums and then giving copies to their friends. So people got us to the idea of passing copies around. Napster simply tapped into that culture.
I would tend to argue that piracy tends to be more of a cultural thing than a price thing. Price points do matter from the stand point of sales, but you can't beat free from a price point of view. If price was the driving force, then why are there any sales at all?