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		flexie on Dec 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: San Francisco and L.A. sue Uber More or less. But would iTunes, Spotify, Netflix etc. have have had a ready market without Napster, KazaA, Pirate Bay and other file sharing sites making people used to getting music and movies online?

wcummings on Dec 10, 2014 [–]

And more importantly, would old media have felt the same pressure to license their content to these new services w/o the spectre of file sharing?

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