Originally Posted by Katczinsky

A large vast majority of the files people (mostly teenagers) are downloading from p2p networks are from the most successful of the MTV generation. The richest of the richest. The 'dirt poor' musicians you refer to, are not that well known and therefore the vast majority of the audience that downloads these files won't be interested in downloading the songs from these artists, but mostly because it's virtually impossible to find songs from such artists over the internet.