It's been 27 years since Napster. People are still making albums and movies. I don't think piracy moves the needle in any meaningful way, not with enforcement anyway.

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Laremere 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Look at a graph of music industry earnings. Earnings peaked around 2000 mostly from CDs, before plumiting because of piracy and the transition to digital. To the people trying to make a living, it changed everything in every meaningful way. Sure enforcement happened eventually, but only after setting everything on fire and changing consumer expectations to be unaligned with artists actually making money for people listening to their music (foreshadowing). The industry has maybe only just recovered with streaming revenue, only for AI to come in like a wrecking ball again.

	▲	doublerabbit 26 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The music industry is a racketeering front; they sabotage themselves. If they actually embraced the digital era of mp3s rather than throwing lawsuits at the problem they would of been on top. Music should be free, however these dinosaurs are stuck in tar and will continue to sue, hoard and milk their old ways restricting innovation and progress. No sympathy for any of the wet teabags of the music industry.
	▲	sublinear 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think it's still debatable whether piracy was the sole cause, or if it was a watershed moment for all the problems that already existed long before napster. The internet sparked interest in independent music, artists had been fed up for a long time regarding earnings, and the music being made by the big labels was already pretty lackluster by this point in time.