alt Hacker NewsExactly. I mean sure, people were definitely pirating music. But lots of people are own huge collections of CDs, and you could also just borrow other people's CDs to rip them. We were kids without money, but older folks at the time did spend money on CDs.
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account42 • today at 12:45 PM
> and you could also just borrow other people's CDs to rip them
Which is "piracy" - not that that makes it ethically wrong. It's actually the main kind of copying that is targeted by DRM since users of the LimeWire kind never see that.
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I still borrow CDs to rip, lol. Half my digital music library comes from my library having a way better library of music than books (at least for my taste)