One of the things you didn't mention from back then was P2P file-sharing. I don't know when the RIAA won, but suddenly downloading mp3s was illegal. And now kids think that paying for iTunes songs was always normal.
> And now kids think that paying for iTunes songs was always normal.
Maybe paying for Spotify which is dirt cheap and satisfies what most people are looking for
What makes you think piracy is worse nowadays? We have more legal obtions but piracy is absolutely booming with high quality rips. Young me would have killed to have the whole Nintendo ROM library a click away and now I can just download it in 2 minutes.
High quality: I don’t miss the old days of searching for music > no ID3 tag just file names > turns out my wholenight download was a peruvian pipe band not the one I was looking for. Every single torrent tracker has now better in quality options and absolutely no fakes
