The advent of the compact disc in the early 1980s meant that recorded music went from being analogue to digital. iTunes is over: what this means for you Read moreThis was a pivotal moment for the music industry, but it took another five years for that penny to drop. What it should have done was create a slick online system that would enable law-abiding citizens to pay for music tracks. So, in a way, you could say that iTunes rescued the record industry from its own incompetence. iTunes is dead; long live music.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 06:00 UTC