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One major difference (between porn and music) is that music was available everywhere offline, whereas porn was relegated to nasty sex shops in bad areas of town or banned outright.
Putting up a page of stolen jpegs in the mid-90s, the total size of which was less than an album of mp3s, was also lot easier than streaming the back catalogue of EMI.
The industry could have done so, and not left it up to the likes of Apple, but they didn't want to do it. They were making vast amounts (as those graphs show) by screwing people with overpriced CDs and, despite the fact that new formats always provide new opportunities and new ways to profit, they never, ever, ever want to change.
Piracy, like tubes, gives people what they want - convenience and a feeling of not being cheated. That doesn't mean free, as the sales of paid digital downloads and streaming now prove.
The people who fixate on piracy as the ultimate scapegoat - in the media mafias and on this board - are dinosaurs with no imagination or creativity who want to go back to the stone age, where 'business' amounted to ripping off and screwing customers, rather than giving them what they want at a fair price.
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