The Music Industry in Danger

The CQ Researcher article discusses the future of the music industry at length, focusing on the effect of illegally downloading music on the entire music industry as a whole. This article appears to place heavy emphasis on the fact that the music industry simply cannot keep up with the pace of people finding new ways to acquire music for very little cost or no cost at all. It goes into great detail about the severely negative impact that this has on artists, as well as producers and labels. The second article is a case study. It offers a scenario, and asks people to react to it. It is not surprising that many people seem sympathetic of the fictional John, and don't seem to think that illegal file sharing is a huge issue. Both articles discuss illegal internet file sharing as a major issue facing our society.