Take a second and imagine that you are living in 1990.  Most of your music is on a series of cassette tapes that you recorded off of the radio.  To have all of your favorite music, then you probably had to wait until it came on the radio.  Or you would have had to buy the cassette tape or the whole compact disc with other songs on it that you may have not been too thrilled about in the first place.  Now, let’s fast forward shall we?  Here we are in 2011.  Now if you want a song, you simply go to your iTunes account click a button and voila it is done.  You own the song and if you don’t want the whole album, you don’t have to get it.  This music is also easily transferable to other digital devices so you can have your music with you wherever you happen to be.

Thank goodness for technology, right?  Well, maybe not so much.  The music industry has some issues with our current technology and most of that happens to include piracy, which is illegal.  It’s not like things that you can get around the law with, like a legal bud.  Piracy is serious business and there is no way around that.  Is the internet really killing the music industry?  I think it is not, but you see for yourself in the infographic below.