Online piracy has caused a major decrease in sales in the music industry certain industry music sales have dropped 30% from 2004 – 2009

CDs  sales fell by about 16 percent worldwide causing the music industry revenue to drop to about 15.8 billion in 2009 from 17.5 billion in 2008

That also is a result of our generation becoming more wise with technology since now 27 percent of the industries revenue come from digital sources which is a 21% from a year ealier