The reason why music sales have plummeted

The New York Times article put a perfect perspective on how ridiculous and greedy record companies really are. What a perfect way to teach a lesson; sue a child for $750,000, and lesson learned. As far as I can remember, music downloads and file sharing has been going on for years, and even before The Napster era, so how convenient to make it illegal now, coincidentally when the music industry has been at an all time low.
Of course the reason behind that may not be the fact that the past couple of years have been filled with teenybopper garbage that consumers, including myself, refuse to spend money on. Aside from a few exceptions, what has the music industry offered worth buying? And whom are they aiming at anyway? Parents? Hardly. They have to keep in mind that their biggest customers are still the same people they are suing.
I think that it is a waste of time to even file a lawsuit against file sharers, since logically they cannot expect to actually get paid. These cas...