The process of digital downloads; what it means for digipaks

Illegal downloading is a an unfortunate problem which exists today. It has caused artists and record labels to lose millions of pounds. As a result of digital downloading in general, the importance of digipak's has slightly diminished, but is still important as even digital downloads still process album/single artwork.

Sites like 'dopehood.com' allow for people to download the album as a 'RAR' file, which looks like this:

Using a program called 'WinRAR' it is then possible to extract the file and produce a folder which contains the tracks, as well as the album artwork as a 'JPEG' file.

From here the songs can be opened up on software such as iTunes ready to be played or synced to a device like an iPod or an iPhone 

)Artwork on iPod)