home recording studios, shit product, robot bands, torrent files.

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@audioidkid

I thought about that... but, what's the real difference between that and my recording tapes off the air in the mid-70s?

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

The quality. The music industry had no problem with music sharing- even going so far as to sell blank tapes- until the quality of a duplicate was indistinguishable from the original.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

And you might have shared or copied that blank cassette recording with 3-4 friends. That's what I did as a kid. We'd find the guy who had the original, and we'd all make copies. But with Napster millions of people could have a copy of that recording. No wonder the music industry freaked out.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken