Several Nicks' CD's, dropped from active status (OOP)

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Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Yes - lots of people steal downloads, but that has nothing to do with CDs being discontinued. People made copies of cassettes & CDs for their friends for fourty years

Yes but its a huge difference in scale. Making cds for my friends meant maybe a dozen people didn't buy the album. Putting an mp3 out on some website means thousands of people that I don't even know don't buy the album. Multiply that out and its easy to see why Internet piracy has crashed album sales.

I'm not in favor of the over-the-top prosecutions of the RIAA or with record company greed. Artists though need to be able to make a living on their music, otherwise they can't really do it.