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There's something in that article that's not (directly) about piracy and that's the notion that CDs led to Downloads. And that's partially about the ability of pirates to rip their CDs and upload them. But it's also about the ability of people to take all their CDs, spend an afternoon in front of the PC, and rip them to their new mp3 player and have their library collected over decades, available to them.
I have an entire basement of books. I'm not paying for them again. I might pay for a few. But I just don't make enough money to pay for all of them. I think that's a big barrier to adoption of e-readers.
And if you get into the whole concept. I've paid for all of them. Is it legal to download them if I already own them? Is a physical book a license for the book or is it the sale of a physical object? Is it legal to chop them apart and scan them myself? If it is, why isn't it legal to download them?
But either way, when I first got an MP3 player a week later I had every CD I owned ripped to it. And I sure don't have that to my kindle.
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