Fans have always and will aways find ways of getting their hands on free music: from mix tapes in the 80s to burning CDs in the 90s to downloading era of the 2000s.
The Internet is not by any means a new phenomenon, yet it still has the music industry reeling. Napster is ancient history, but BitTorrent is en vogue and iTunes is here to stay. Today's listeners have access to seemingly infinite amounts of music for free, and the Recording Industry doesn't like it one bit.
