Heard On The Street
Piracy has long been a headache for the record industry. Cassettes proved so easy to copy in the ’80s that the compact disc was introduced. Then the digital revolution, complete with the ease of downloading from personal computers, gave birth to Napster. Today, music theft–especially in the world of hip-hop and R&B–is more likely to come in the form of old-fashioned bootlegging. With CD burners that are cheap and fast, bootleggers can make thousands of flawless copies of a recording and sell them to street vendors....