http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/03/macklemore-and-the-death-of-the-music-industry Comments On: Macklemore and the Death of the Music Industry by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It began with Napster, and nothing can stop it.

Maybe this is true, but I really doubt that digital music or filesharing was the actual cause of the decline of the industry. It may, however, be because the arrival of "Napster" coincided with the wide availability of so many new ways for people to distract themselves and at approximately the same time that the industry had just finished selling CD versions of old records and cassettes to people who wanted to bring their collections into the late twentieth century.
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