They had no idea what was just around the corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_is_Killing_Music
Quote from funky ‘ol Wikipedia:
“‘Home Taping Is Killing Music‘ was the slogan of a 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a British music industry trade group. With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI feared that people being able to record music from the radio onto cassettes would cause a decline in record sales. The logo, consisting of a skull and crossbones formed from the silhouette of a cassette, also included the words And it’s Illegal.”
I think we’re a few generations along now, perhaps.
Mp3 killed CDs killed the Compact Cassette. And the MiniDisc just kind of . .. well, died.
So now, when you see that logo on a tee-shirt, it’s kinda like seeing Che Guevara on a tee . . . right?
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That craze transform completely legal activities in crime and ordinary citizens into criminals … When do you learn?