In 2001, the music industry "faced an existential threat" because its "vanquishing of Napster turned out to be a pyrrhic victory: the genie had escaped from the bottle. Dozens of filesharing systems had come into being." iTunes (even though it's now bloated and terrible and leaving) "was a revelation," and made paying for music online […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM on June 9, 2019