Music Sales and the Internet: Together in Perfect Harmony?

From Jon Healey's "Bit Player" blog , on "Hollywood's love/hate relationship with technology":

The numbers from Nielsen SoundScan are in, and for the first time, the number of downloadable albums sold (32.6 million) more than offset the decline in physical CD sales (-30.7 million).

Me from Reason's March 2004 issue on why music industry cries that the Internet and file-sharing were killing them softly were premature–and nothing more than the same old song, with a lazy new rhyme or two.