I remember when mp3 music first became available and sharing sites like Limewire popped up.

So many people were sharing music ( depriving artists of their pay ) that it looked like a real problem. How could they possibly deter all those music takers?

It turns out they only needed to catch a few, and fine the living daylights out of them. A fine of $100,000 was sufficient to scare everybody back to honesty.

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ImPleadThe5th 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm, I think it was more the rise of streaming services which were more convenient and offered a better experience with less risk than illegally downloading music or movies.

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teg4n_ 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not remotely true.

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mullingitover 7 hours ago | parent [-]

No it definitely happened. There is famously no copyright infringement on the internet now.

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sidrag22 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.