In the past 5 years of the music industry's assault on file sharing services, they've gone quite a few lengths to blame piracy for their sales woes. I've always felt that piracy was an effect rather than a cause of the problems. The biggest issue is that music just doesn't have the personality and cachet that it once did. The latest example: last week's Grammy show ratings were lower than a popular amateur music show, American Idol.
That should be a good lesson for the music biz. File sharing may be partly at fault for dwindling sales, but the Grammy show is a good indicator for the health of music that should be unaffected by pirated content. They've had ratings issues for a little while now and one quick explanation comes to mind: published music doesn't inspire people anymore.
That people would rather watch a bunch of amateurs vying for pop-star medals over the most established names in music is telling for the depth of the music industry's problems... I wonder how long before the RIAA puts out a press release blaming it on P2P.
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