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It cracks me up how everyone seems to be surprised that porn was (and is) the main traffic on file sharing services. The only reason that wasn't the case on Napster was because it only offered music (just imagine how much more amazing napster would have been if it had had music and porn!!!).
The RIAA needs to stop fighting this fight. They can't win, short of blocking file sharing over the internet. And if that happens, then the RIAA might as well just commit sepukku, since they will have signed their own death warrent. If they tried to embrace the new technology, and adapt to it, they would probably not be having these issues. The old system of selling a crappy cd with two or three hits won't work anymore. They need to offer better alternatives to file sharing. I'm not talking about throwing special features onto a CD... most people just want the music, not the extra stuff. However, if you make it so I can download the songs I want at high quality, I'd be willing to pay a bit for that. They can still make money, just not the way they have in the past.
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