Digital versus Physical

With the increased use of the Internet in the past years the times of owning physical CDs has become nonexistent mainly because digital music is much easier to acquire.  However with this increased use of the Internet, the issue of digital piracy has become a major problem in the music industry.

Analyzing the affects that digital distribution has on the music industry will allow us to look at the decline in physical sales due to the popularity of piracy.  This affects not only the industry in general but each artist individually.

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