That quote is plain wrong. The pirates weren't chased out of the music business. While they have declined, they still exist (like you said). Why have they decl

That quote is plain wrong. The pirates weren't chased out of the music business. While they have declined, they still exist (like you said). Why have they declined? Because free was out-competed by paid options. Spotify/Netflix/iTunes etc is a better experience than free, where the value of the experience is greater to the user than its cost. If publishers want to come out of this alive, they have to start providing more value than some dude running a server out of their basement could.