Initially, everyone thought the problem was piracy. If you look at the numbers, piracy of cassette tapes and CDs stole some 48 % of the music market at its height in 2001. But the rise of P2P applications squeezed even the distribution of pirated editions, and by 2007 the "market share" of physical pirate copies had fallen to just 22 %.
一開始大家都認為罪魁禍首是盜版，若攤開統計數字，卡帶、CD 盜版最猖獗的 2001 年，確實狠狠地「竊取」了正版音樂 48 % 的市值，但之後當 P2P 網路應用興起，連盜版的空間也被排擠掉；2007 年，「實體盜版」的市占率也已一路萎縮，降至 22 %。