How can the music industry survive amidst piracy

Actually, it's not so much piracy that's causing the financial problems in the music industry. It's their refusal to adapt to the changing times.The slump in record sales started in the late 1980's when records were pulled off the store shelves, & replaced by Compact disks. Was this a coincidence? I'm not sure, but many factors lead to the conclusion that it was not a coincidence. What needs to be done is that these record company executives, who know nothing about what the fans of the artists & bands want, need to stop interfering with the artists' creativity. What also does not help the music industry is that "independent" artists have been actually getting together in their basements with their bands, & recording their own music onto computers. They then either make their music available for downloading, or burn their own CD's that they sell at half to two-thirds of the price that the major labels sell CD's for. They also need to pick up better artists, because many of these "independent" or "unsigned" artists make better music than those signed up on the major labels. For artists that are signed on major labels, the record companies get all or most of the money from sales & from air play. The artists themselves get next to nothing, if that, from record sales. Most of the monies earned by the artists themselves are from appearances, & shows, & concert performances. I'm sure the music industry is still here to stay. Things are being shaken up with the new technologies.

The music industry will survive because always will be people how buy the originals cd,dvd because they are suport the band or the singer,this is a whay to show you are suport what they are doing.