How Will Music Industry Have An Impact In The Future?

How will the music industry have an impact in the future? Will the technology when downloading music be better and portable without having to carry a phone or small device? In the beginning many people bought CD’s, records, or cassettes to play music, as technology advance people have mp3 players or phones to listen to music. In America many people have used the internet to download music illegally and legally, each month more than 2.6m songs are downloaded illegally. Many artist dislike when their fans do this, because their ratings go down. People have downloaded music illegally since the 1990’s. In the early 2000’s over 278 million people started to download softwares to their computers so they can download music. The main used softwares back then were Kazaa and Napster. In 2003 261 users from both softwares were given lawsuits by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) for downloading 2 million copyrighted files. Kazaa kept file sharing music to its users but Napster was sued, a few years later Napster started making its users pay for music. People keep downloading music from the internet today because they’re either broke or just don’t care about what society thinks, It’s still a crime to share files of music you’ve downloaded from the internet. …show more content…
Apps and softwares will be the main source for downloading music illegally and legally. People right now use Pandora, Soundcloud, and etc. and a few softwares to download music or stream it. How many softwares or websites will be sued for giving free music to download, and how many people will get lawsuits from downloading the music illegally from these