You forget that the mainstream had no choice. The old centralized authorities fought and fought hard. As an older user I'm surprised you conceded this point so

You forget that the mainstream had no choice. The old centralized authorities fought and fought hard. As an older user I'm surprised you conceded this point so quickly by calling it copyright infringement. These are the same guys who made CDs cost magically more than cassettes, stood at every juncture against moving society forwards and have constantly pushed American copy right life higher because they can afford the lawyers normal people can't. People didn't give up anything - they lost something they didn't know they had because media firms beat them.