"Byrne gave a presentation entitled 'Record Companies: Who Needs Them?' at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, Thursday," reports Reuters. "He predicted that digital sales would outstrip CD sales by 2012."
That year will be the ''tipping point,'' much like the mid-to-late '80s when CDs overtook cassette sales. Once download sales became the norm, Byrne said, it will allow manufacturing and distribut |