The problem isn't "the music industry" the problem is "the music industries".

Each country has its own little equivalents of the RIAA and MPAA.

And that is one of the 'secret sauces' underpinning the success of Apple's iTunes store... because nobody else had the sheer bloodymindedness (or resources) to sit down with and browbeat a hundred different "national music unions" into submission (read as: accepting that digital music wasn't going to go away if they stuck their head in the sand).