Does anyone have the canonical source of MTV claiming that internet piracy contributed to its demise? This entire article seems contrived and made up, with date

Does anyone have the canonical source of MTV claiming that internet piracy contributed to its demise? This entire article seems contrived and made up, with dates and times completely missing the mark. Singled out stopped airing in 1998, where Napster was released in 1999. Wikipedia says that the shows "Total request" and "MTV: Live", which were shows that did center around music videos, were created specifically because critics complained that MTV was not playing enough Music Videos, in 1997. Despite targeted efforts to play certain types of music videos in limited rotation, MTV greatly reduced its overall rotation of music videos throughout the first decade of the 2000s. While music videos were featured on MTV up to eight hours per day in 2000, 2008 saw an average of just three hours of music videos per day on MTV.[1] So, Youtube started to have influence on how people watched music videos half a decade prior to it's launch in 2005? Someone should have done a bit more research in writing this article than the 10 minutes I just spent trying to confirm everything they said. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV