Using technology to protect intellectual property tends to annoy consumers. Digital rights managements (DRM) has no way of distinguishing between copying music for resale and copying for personal backup. The recording industry implements strategies assuming they can't trust their customers. They are right to not trust them but their approach inconveniences all customers, not just those violating their IP.
Several years ago amazon opened a DRM free digital music store. They provide a massive selection of mp3's for 99 cents. The popularity of amazons music store has driven iTunes to remove DRM from their music as well.
It has taken a while, but the market has imposed some sanity on digital music sales.Digital music sales are beginning to surpass physical CD sales. This is a little scary for the recording industry since it makes it much easier for artists to distribute music independently. A lot of the barriers to getting your music published just arent there any more. As a result, the recording industry will likely begin to be marginalized in the future. They just act as a middle man that artists are beginning to realize they can do without.
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The problem with singles is that musicians aren't making much money off of albums any more. With singles available, every single song has to be amazing, while before if you had one or two really good ones and six or seven decent ones, you could still sell the album and make more money. Actually, music sales these days are just bad in general. Lots of problems with the current system, and we're all still struggling to work through them and be able to make a living.
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