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

The emergence of the digital download signals change, rather than the end. Like the music industry dealt with the introduction of the cassette and then the CD, it will still survive with digital downloads, even if piracy is a bigger problem than ever before. Record shops are far and wide these days, with HMV being the only major record shop left in the UK. People will still buy music, as iTunes 10 billionth track sold reminds us. As music piracy sites are easily accessible and simple to navigate, people are always to going to use them, however not always with bad intentions, as many artists breakthrough over the internet by releasing songs and albums via piracy websites to promote themselves and get themselves known, so in that respect due to piracy we actually have more music to access, that we wouldn't have had the chance to before. The music industry has seen many changes, all of which the music industry has handled and coped with, and even though the music industry faces it's toughest test yet with digital downloads, music will still sell and maybe the digital download will itself evolve into another platform?