Music Piracy War: A waste of time?

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

. Apple didn’t win on technology. Nobody does, ultimately. They won on business smarts.

Which is precisely what the rapacious and exploitative music industry is busily raping music downloaders in order to compensate for. Business smarts kept Apple together - and totally in the game to boot - while every household in America was busily scarfing up PCs after Al Gore invented the Internet. Now they're defining industry standards far beyond the scope of a simple desktop computer.

What did it for me was the early days of Napster - when Lars Ulrich came forward and condemned people for downloading music off of that service, when for many years, Metallica had been winking and nodding at live performance recordings, since those would serve to gather more fans for them.

So. .