[jamespo]

So thanks to Spotify and iTunes obeying the rules they made money and the founders of the companies that didn't succeeded in a completely different market?

[flexie]

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]

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?