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It's kind of crazy that everyone freaked out about "piracy" in the 2000s but every form of music filesharing in that era was materially better for music artists than what is by far the dominant platform for streaming music today, and that this is legal because it's been done in cooperation with the entrenched monopolies who own the right to make money off of music instead of in spite of them



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