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People have spent billions of dollars buying music on iTunes. Its pretty obvious that people will pay for things if its more convenient than pirating it.
by towelrod 15y ago
People have spent billions of dollars buying music on iTunes. Its pretty obvious that people will pay for things if its more convenient than pirating it.
- rick888 15y agoBut piracy hasn't stopped or slowed down.
- tonio09 15y agoI wouldn't say it's more convenient. It's rather the case that most people have no clue about how to pirate music. It's an information asymmetry. You need to be at least minimally technically skilled to pirate. Once you install an extension to chrome, it's actually easier to just go to youtube, search for a song, and click the download link. In iTunes, you have to set up a credit card, you can't copy the songs to any device, only works with iPhone ... etc. There are lots of inconveniences.