Even when the RIAA brought the whole weight of the music industry in a draconian attempt to kill file-sharing, the only real losses were Napster and Limewire. File-sharing was orders of magnitude better than physical purchase & storage.

I remember the legendary Quincy Jones said a few years ago that the biggest selling album the previous year was by Taylor Swift - and it only sold 1 million copies.

“We used to sell a million in one WEEK.” he added.