[sidrag22]

or you know... the rise of itunes/ipod at that exact time. present the public with an option that is not in a grey area and is not a massive inconvenience, and a large amount of them will happily go the legal route.

Its leaning that direction again, video streaming services are becoming a massive inconvenience, much like needing to buy a CD if you wanted 2 total songs off it. Doubt it will be as iconic of a moment in time as the limewire/napster era was, but who knows, im so bad at predicting the future i assumed nvidia was gonna be hard declining after the end of the crypto mining craze.

> sufficient to scare everybody back to honesty.

idk how you thought this would land here, but saying everybody was a rough choice of words.

[sidrag22]

I am unsure how you think this makes your point? thats from 2010. the end of that era. Perhaps you think this was the nail in the coffin? but itunes/ipods had been around for nearly 10 years at that point and a ton of the approachable programs such limewire napster etc, were becoming tougher to use, and it was a transition to torrents instead. in 2010 there was even spotify in the mix.

Regardless of all of that, stating that one person's lawsuit is why music piracy ended for EVERYONE is a massive massive stretch of the truth. piracy literally never ended, it just became less approachable, and the mainstream offerings became more what the public desired(CD sections are pretty dead in modern day).