Like the article says - "it's hard to compete with free". They can try if they want to, and they may even see more sales. But it won't last. It's quicker and cheaper to go download the songs on a p2p service and burn a cd or, in our case, transfer them to our empegs.

I rarely do this myself, but I think I'm a minority when it comes to how-I-get-my-music.