week 8

Industries change and evolve constantly over time.  They do this to suit their customers’ needs and to keep up with the times as the years go by and technology advances.  This includes the music industry.  With the emergence of the digital download, many are convinced that this is the end of the music industry.  It seems, however, that if the music industry advances along with fans and technology, this does not have to be the case. 

The majority of fans do not want to end the music industry at all.  As Condry states, there are four main reasons that people download – instead of buying, sampling before a purchase, access unavailable music, and access non-copyrighted material.  Fans actually have morals about downloading as well.  Most do not sell the music they download, and they tend to be loyal consumers when they love an artist.  It seems the music industry just needs to “build alternative compensation systems”.