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It was put back in the bottle by Apple legitimating the piracy business model by cutting desks with the major labels to digitize their music.

The analogue here is AI art week be legitimized, and the artists who profit will be the ones who let their work be used as input for a cut of the profits. And nobody will be able to compete with them, and the owners of the machine will be able to set the profit rate as they choose.

... That does sound like a new stable equilibrium, actually.

And as we all know, music piracy over the Internet ended the day Napster stopped working. /s

How was it put back in the bottle? The Pirate Bay still exists. Bittorrent tools still exist. Name any song and I'm sure we can find it.