Does the emergence of the digital downloading signal the end for the music industry?

Throughout history, the music industry has notably been exceedingly cautious and negative towards change influenced by technology. Cassette was first introduced in the 60’s, however by the 80’s an anti piracy campaign was launched to crack down on piracy. Only until 2000 did piracy become hugely threatening when Radio-Head’s album became available on a free file sharing website called Napster. Downloaded by millions, the album was only truly commercially released three months after and was predicted to flop, however it did the opposite and went straight to number 1
Lawrence Lessig stated four categories of file-sharing, download rather then buy, sample music before buying, obtain music that you can but anymore and share non copyrighted material. I-tunes embraced the sample before buy with its short previews and legal downloads have now wiped off CD singles off store shelves. The music industry wont end with digital downloading, it will only get better and evolve into a more cost effective industry.