Subject URL: CDr trading could kill the bootleg industry?

Well, this article is about two years behind the times. In the old days people traded tapes of concerts via the mail. The internet brought everyone together and made it much easier to find others with the shows and bands you wanted tapes of. Cheap CD burners improved the quality of said recordings. All of these factors had a huge negative effect on the commercial bootleg business (CDs dressed up to look officialish and sold for high prices). But the thing that has killed the bootleg business the most in the past couple of years has to be MP3. Millions of people still trade CDrs, but they don't have to anymore. If you want that gig you can have it in a couple of hours, not weeks...