>As soon as they added a way to receive money, customers paid, it's visible on the graph.
Some customers paid. What I'm saying is there are a significant number who could pay but won't and the harder you make the piracy the smaller that number will be.
And this statement is based on what exactly? The overall pie of music revenue even increased since the CD era.
And music piracy isn't any harder than 10 years ago, it's using the exact same tech.
The only thing that changed is that now there's a way to pay for music legally online, which wasn't the case before.
The lesson to learn for the music industries here based on data is that customers will pay if there's realistic service they can pay for, if they don't have a way to pay for music, they won't get any money. That sounds obvious but now we have the figures associated showing that.
Some customers paid. What I'm saying is there are a significant number who could pay but won't and the harder you make the piracy the smaller that number will be.