Will piracy kill off prog rock ?

Will we just be left with Kylie Minogue and a pile of steaming rubble ?

What do you all think ? ;-)

Also, it's impossible to kill music unless you're some kind of magic creature (Nickelback?). 

So. How will music piracy - the fact that so many people can download entire musical catalogues with the click of a button - affect Prog rock as a musical genre ?

Or will it ? 

Are we all happy now ? :-)

PS Probably true, Dark Elf. ;-) And let's face it, we all bought the albums in the 1970's. But how does it affect new bands ? ;-)

The worrying thing is that prog rock means that you have to spend a long time learning to play. If there's nothing financially at the end of it, a lot of the next generation will say "might as well just churn out crap, then. " 

I really hope that doesn't happen. 

Of course not. On contrary, e.g. all these prog vids at YouTube are actually popularized prog.

Also, the prog bands will earning more money of playing live than from CDs because the tickets will be more and more expensive. The tickets were cheap when I was a liitle kid in a middle of 70s, but also in 80s, I remember that the concert tickets of famous British and American bands were very cheap.

Why should Ms Minogue snr. be immune? 

On the other hand these new technologies which allow music piracy are also allowing them to create and record their music much more cheaply and to reach to the whole world of potential listeners for a very low cost, something unthinkable 40 years ago when only a deal with a major label could provide you with decent multinational exposure. So I guess one thing goes with the other, it (the technology, not the fact of piracy in itself) has some negative but also some very positive effects.

Having said that, I wonder what is the future of the piracy download sites. With iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp and other streaming services maybe they will become less meaningful. For some time many musicians or labels forbid their music from being on YT, but now most of them seem to be giving up and you find full album clips from nearly everybody. Also for some time in the past the chase against Napster, eMule etc and the blocking of pirate downloading sites was quite an active subject. I'm not a frequent user but I have the impression that the chase has relaxed a bit in recent years, hasn't it?

It doesn't help - I know for a fact that prog bands do lose a lot of sales from people uploading CDs and DVDs but I guess it has to be balanced against the number of people who may buy CDs after hearing an illegal download.