Napster's Effect On The Music Industry, According To The Labels

The chart breaks down how record companies expected sales to increase before free downloads.

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To justify their $75 trillion case against Limewire, record labels have created this graph that depicts how they feel things would have gone, had this whole filesharing business not caught on. According to them, the emergence of P2P networks like Napster and Limewire has been the primary cause of the $55 billion drop in the record industry revenue over the past ten years, and the evidence is right here. The trial will begin May 2.

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