>>716060315
The core problem is that gathering a sufficiently large mass is extremely difficult.
Issues include but are not limited to:
>availability (how to reach others efficiently or at all, and no it's not necessarily easier with social media due to the following issues)
>laziness
>previous biases and lack of open-mindedness
>social pressure
>propaganda (from companies or other groups with a conflict of interest)
>goldfish memory (abstaining from consuming [thing] for a week then going back to buying [thing] because of previously mentioned issues)
The event where the interest of the people aligns for a common cause for an extremely large group to force the hand of companies, with your example due to programs like napster and limewire back in the day- is like a syzygy. It can happen and sometimes it arrives but you can't forecast that.
There are numerous other aspects as to why music piracy ended up how it did and the novelty of the internet and its earlier adopters should not be underestimated in this topic.