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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I think Neil Young said it best when he said that file-sharing was simply the radio of the 21st century.
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Which is very convenient for Uncle Neil to say, but a completely one sided perspective. Radio was another customer of the music business, and was in the game to make money themselves. So yes, its almost certainly supplanted radio as a primary means of gaining access to new music, but its done nothing to recoup the losses in money flowing through the system.
I'm not saying radio, or the record industry is perfect, but in the old days, it was a neat way of taking advertiser dollars and turning them into mass distribution of music for people that otherwise didn't, or couldn't, afford music collections. Sort of a modern era patronage of the arts.