Napster changed the music industry forever. CD’s cost pennies to press and the price kept going up and up. Hell, we did file sharing when i was a kid. I’d borrow friend’s albums and tape them and they would borrow mine. The music industry were Luddites with technology and got burned. The movie industry came to terms with new ides like Netflix and thrived
There was a site where you could download and print the liner notes from a CD. All you needed was an empty jewel case.