In a monetary sense of the word, digital downloads have definitely had their toll on the music industry. When just 10 years ago a CD-single would have usually cost around £4 on the week of its release, it would now cost just 75p to have the same song; simply downloaded instead of shop-bought. Therefore, there would be an obvious hit to the industry’s income.
However, in an artistic sense, the ability to hear any song at any time, along with the capability to send songs across the world with the click of a button enables artists and record labels to spread music worldwide within seconds.
Obviously along with this simplicity comes the clear temptation of consumers to download this music illegally. The music industry is still thriving off of the digital-download craze – with iTunes selling its 10 billionth song in February 2010 – there will always be a legal demand for digital songs, even if the presence of illegal downloading is there.
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This is largely good but could have been improved with a little reference to some of the discussed theoretical work in the area.
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