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Originally Posted by issybird
Stealers gonna steal. The bulk of piracy occurs because people can and not because individual moral arbiters decide that something’s crossed the line of “onerosity”.
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The history of music piracy argues against you. Napster was HUGE because it was free. But it was also easy to use and had a wide selection of music. The music industry wasn't offering that. Eventually they did through iTunes and then when they feared Apple's growing control, Amazon (too bad nobody in the publishing industry learned a lesson here).
You can still easily download free MP3s illegally. But not many people do it. Because it is a whole lot easier to use Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music or if you want to 'own' it, you just buy the MP3 for about a buck and download a DRM free copy from Amazon that you know is high quality.