The Apple Worm

SoundJam MP was released in 1998 to be replaced on January 2001 by a brand new program that was to revolutionlize the music industry for at least the first half of its decade, if not more. With piracy and hacking becoming an everyday problem for musicians that sold records on shelves at stores in CD's Apple came up with a solution: people wanted an amazing and portable mp3 player and they got the iPod, what people did not realize was that they also wanted a portable music store. The reason why piracy and illegal downloads soared were not just because people did not want to pay for music, people will pay for lots f things they don't NEED, it just has to be "convenient" or accessible. Don't believe me? the iTunes music store launched April 28th 2003: just it's first week sold more than one Million songs... 99 cents per song... you do the math or just round it up to about a million dollars spent in ONE WEEK. iTunes seemed like a unbreakable business... Until