Alot of people just listen to music on youtube.
Vevo and personal tracklists are the cause.
There is not alot of music worth buying lately. If it is then I would pobably still steal it.
people that rip music are not the cause of the recording studio's board members .... errrr - musicians, becoming billionaires, its the fact that i/we no longer have to buy Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin 8 times because you listened to Stairway to Heaven so much it kept dying or, leaving the album in the car/window/direct sun, warping it, getting scratches etc. etc.
now, i only have to buy it once, make a digital copy and never worry about buying it again. very soon now the RIAA is going to make it where you can only listen to a certain song so many times before you have to "rent" it again from them.