Do you seriously believe that the music industry doesn’t make money ? Really? You should understand that most multinationals tell lies to the world. They lie. They don’t tell the truth. With the justice system not working in all major countries many rich managers claim to be poor and not making money while they keep getting richer and richer.
If the music industry was so poor all of a sudden then how comes the number of available songs kept increasing ? No one making money out of it ? All famous and not so famous singers and bands would be poor and with no money? Only a few are making money? If that was ever true after a couple of years at most the number of people involved would have dropped a lot… with no money people just don’t work for free and if there is no chance of getting rich people wouldn’t bother trying.
So no, the music industry just like the movie one there in Hollywood is not in a big crisis and they keep getting richer year on year. It is just a fact and not an opinion. Just like there is no crisis of DVD and BluRay sales just because a percentage of sales is digital downloads now. If that was ever true then big online shops like Amazon would keep getting millions of new DVD and BluRay every year with no customers buying the products or selling just a few ?
And the same applies to the PC hardware market. The 'net is full of articles telling that the industry is in a big crisis scenario and manufacturers aren’t selling enough and so on… Well, all new products are being manufactured and sold by shops worldwide. If that wasn’t true then most online shops would have gone bankrupt long time ago as well as most manufacturers. That didn’t happen at all.