Against Illegal Downloads of Music Files, a Well Orchestrated Response

Le Monde

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"A world of pirates" (5/5). The first cultural sector affected by mass piracy, the music industry found, with paid streaming, an effective parade, a development to which some Internet users remain refractory.

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JEAN-LUC NAVETTE Piracy, unlike cycling, is forgotten. And quite quickly, in general. During his teens, in the 2000s, David, 37 years old, was among those who illegally downloaded music using software such as eMule or Kazaa. Yet, early 2025, when he sought a way to recover a few pieces of music for free to slide into the children's enclosure of his 2-year-old son, he had to start again from scratch. Where to download? How? From whom? This custom…