[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).

[sidrag22]

its just impossible to not read this as. "they used her lawsuit to set an example, so it worked". One can be true and the other can be untrue... Piracy never ended, and it was not a reversion to the old ways post lawsuit, the market evolved based on the pushback from the public. I have no idea how you are drawing your conclusion that because this lawsuit exists, it was the final nail in the piracy coffin, when piracy has literally never gone away.

Anecdotally, I very much lived through this entire era, I've literally never seen that lawsuit until you linked that article(notable the 25k settlement she declined). The idea that it scared the entire USA into compliance is an unbelievable stretch... still.