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The industry needs to re-invent it's self and if the music industry is to get any better soon it needs to act quickly. Bootlegging has been around for a whilst but everyone bootlegging now can do it much easier than it was 20 years ago. When casettes were introduced you could tape your vinyl album for free and then sell it if you wanted, though when CDs were introduced the bootlegging slowed down, the introduction of computers has harmed the industry as well as made it.
With computers we've been able to run DAWs from home and create products we can promote over the Internet for free or very cheaply, an easier form of networking was introduced and it became easier to find a target audience. Though with emails and mp3s came file sharing and it's becoming increasingly difficult forthe industry to do anything about it. As much as Metallica lost a huge amount of respect from the napster saga, they were completely right and the industry should have sat up and stopped as much of it as they possibly could.
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