The digital decade covers the transition of music from CD's to online music, such as MP3's.
The digital decade bought problems to the music industry though - people could now p2p file-share their music, costing the music industry billions of dollars of revenue.
This was extremely difficult to contain: if they sued one person it would make them look harsh, but if they closed down p2p sites or programmes such as Limewire then a new one would take its place immediately.
The music industry was also slow to catch on to the potential that online music bought - missing out on creating massive services such as iTunes, YouTube and Spotify.
This is an example of how the gap between major and independent labels is widening - as major labels find it easy to get their music on large services such as iTunes, whereas independent labels find it much harder.
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