• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    CDs absolutely influenced the scale and speed of it. And it was a generational shift that went from piracy being something that wasn’t well understood and mostly a niche issue for music and movie lovers (“home taping is killing music”) to something that impacted all types of media.

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      MP3’s sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD’s so that countered any speed up.