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People had multi gigabyte music and movie and TV show collections long before iTunes made it 'popular' or 'easy'. And I wager that most multi gigabyte movie and

People had multi gigabyte music and movie and TV show collections long before iTunes made it 'popular' or 'easy'. And I wager that most multi gigabyte movie and TV show collections still have nothing to do with iTunes. Though yes, Apple did do a huge part for boosting people's music collections. But let's not even pretend for movies and TV shows. That "honour" goes to some completely different groups... cough.

djacobs 16y ago
Agreed. To say otherwise is to be drinking the Koolaid that Apple fed to record labels 10 years ago. "We'll boost your sales like you've never seen. We'll even protect your stuff with DRM, no one will mind!"
modoc 16y ago
The "People" you're talking about are the very small tech minority who were in the "scene", dcc-ing or on usenet, or torrenting (when that came about). What Apple did, is they boosted the average person's music/tv/movie collection. People like my mom and sister. There's 1,000 of them, for every DCCing/Torrenting one of us.
- doron 16y ago
  I guess that is why the music industry got all up in arms about. that tiny minority who used Napster and limewire and such. According to some counts the number of this tech minority was about 80 million on napster alone, not including your mom and sister of course.
- bck 16y ago
  That's simply not true. In my high school, for example, Napster got installed on all computers in the computer lab and a full class was dedicated to teaching everyone how to use it. For reference, another full class was dedicated to learning how to use "Search Engines". Frankly, I did not know a single person under the age of 30 who did not have a massive collection of MP3s and divx movies by the time iTunes came out. Those "People" would actually be called teenagers, and I never met one who didn't know how to use Napster or Kazaa back when I was one of them.

djacobs 16y ago

Agreed. To say otherwise is to be drinking the Koolaid that Apple fed to record labels 10 years ago. "We'll boost your sales like you've never seen. We'll even protect your stuff with DRM, no one will mind!"

modoc 16y ago

The "People" you're talking about are the very small tech minority who were in the "scene", dcc-ing or on usenet, or torrenting (when that came about). What Apple did, is they boosted the average person's music/tv/movie collection. People like my mom and sister. There's 1,000 of them, for every DCCing/Torrenting one of us.

doron 16y ago
I guess that is why the music industry got all up in arms about. that tiny minority who used Napster and limewire and such. According to some counts the number of this tech minority was about 80 million on napster alone, not including your mom and sister of course.
bck 16y ago
That's simply not true. In my high school, for example, Napster got installed on all computers in the computer lab and a full class was dedicated to teaching everyone how to use it. For reference, another full class was dedicated to learning how to use "Search Engines". Frankly, I did not know a single person under the age of 30 who did not have a massive collection of MP3s and divx movies by the time iTunes came out. Those "People" would actually be called teenagers, and I never met one who didn't know how to use Napster or Kazaa back when I was one of them.