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iTunes only launched in 2011/2012 in Eastern Europe and many other countries. Before that the only way to get music digitally was to download it from P2P networ
by zirgs 3y ago
iTunes only launched in 2011/2012 in Eastern Europe and many other countries. Before that the only way to get music digitally was to download it from P2P networks.
- cubefox 3y agoAnd of course in 2012, Eastern Europeans started to pay for their music, right? No? Maybe they were pirating it because piracy is free.
- zirgs 3y agoA lot of them - me included -started to use Spotify, because it is cheap and convenient. It really converted lots of pirates to paying customers. There simply was no legal option to buy music digitally before that. CDs were overpriced and inconvenient.