Week 6 - IS DRM the best way to save the music industry?

Statistics show that there has been a decrease in the music industries profits, and the development of illegal music downloading and sharing is arguably the main reason. Therefore, putting restrictions on MP3 files as to limit the amount of illegal downloads appears to be a good idea, yet not necessarily a successful method due to the amount of downloading networks still readily available. Arguably the music industry needs to adapt with technology and use music networking in way to help themselves. For example, people may preview music that they have never heard before, enjoy it, and could consequently result in them buying it eventually, tickets to gigs or relating products. However, it can be argued that the music industry is no where near being needed to be saved, it just needs to adapt to changes.