The downloading of music

Napster, Limewire, Morpheus etc etc etc allowed us all to download music for free and I agree it was wrong but it didn't take long for a lot of people to get really fed up with the quality of the MP3s they were downloading.

I think it's Youtube, spotify and all the other streaming platforms that have troubled it for artists

and they are still doing it.
The upside, if it can be called such a thing,

is that artists have to perform live and that must sort the wheat from the chaff.

If someone could come up with a viable copy protection mechanism we could go back to buying records again

and the all would be well except that then thhe cassette would come back