Comment by ghaff

A number of years back, an analyst friend of mine made a claim in a talk that Napster was more about convenience (i.e. near instant access) than it was about cheapness. I didn't buy the argument at the time but habits that have developed in the time since suggest there's a lot of truth in what he said. Video is more complicated than music because of fragmentation and outright unavailability of a lot of content. But most people with even remotely mainstream music tastes are very widely fine with just streaming.