Streaming killed napster not Metallica or legal. Sure it helped, but ease of access vs cost will always determine the amount of piracy over laws made by man.
I'm pretty sure there was legislation and legal actions that lead to the demise of Napster and the rest of the P2P non torrent clones and this Reverse Engineering of software is going to lead to a new legislative framework coming into existence that is going to protect the likes of Adobe and Sony more so than consumers.
Well that was 26 years ago...but Napster opened pandora's box of p2p that spawned many iterations that have yet to be completely shut down by "legal backlash".
Which was the whole point of my comment. You can throw all the lawyers, lawsuits, court orders etc that you want at something but you can't kill the movement.
meanwhile, digital locks exist on everything thanks to the DMCA which came about as a result of those early legal issues. So while there's still an underground p2p culture out there the consumer has had to deal with the growth of the enshitification model.
so down play it all you want, but I stand by my statement that the legal backlash from all this is not going to be good for consumers.
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u/ihadagoodone 11h ago
the legal backlash from all this is going to be, uhhh, not so great for consumers.