The continuing sales drop of music compact discs accelerated to nearly 13 percent in 2006 while fast-growing digital download sales failed to make up for the sales shortfall, according to figures published by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Though sales of music in digital formats such as downloads and mobile ring tones more than doubled in some cases during the year, Including digital and CD sales of music industry is down by 6.2 percent to $11.51 billion.
The U.S. music industry has said like it is more headache that people buy through iTunes rathar than CDs. More than 615 million CDs were shipped to retail and specialty outlets in 2006 .
Online file sharing is convenience for everybody.
I hope everything will be settled and every files should be downloadable. i dont know how but it should be possible that all of users are based on moral.

According to the RIAA, sales of digital songs were up by 60 percent while sales of digital albums more than doubled. Overall digital sales rose by 74.4 percent to $878 million.
Sales of digital music for use on mobile phones was up by 83.7% to $774.5 million.

I hope music industry would not get pissed off more than it already is....

haha