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Isn't this a bit like victim blaming? You should be criticizing the RIAA and lawmakers instead.
No, it is not. I'm not blaming the artists whose work was stolen. A bunch of people took up thievery. Someone said please stop. They laughed, and were complicit in creating a tech dystopia. If you want to say they were dumb kids who didn't know any better, we can work with that. So then the question would be how do they help fix the mess they helped create?
Someone downloading a single off Napster no more "stole" that same single when they listened to it on the radio. The person downloading a song was as much of a non-customer as the radio listener.
In fact Napster's rise was coincident with increased CD sales. Napster et al were not causing poor innocent record executives to go hungry or beg on the street.
The thing that killed CD sales wasn't P2P but online music stores like iTunes and then streaming. They served a market demand.
The backwards laws like the DMCA were written and passed before Napster even existed. Blaming Napster for that is not just ahistorical but ludicrous.