my final thoughts:
<br><br>Apple's one of the very few companies in the computer industry that consistently wins awards for innovation. Apple's also the most immitated company on earth... Apple has one of the strongest brands on the planet... Yet with all these things, they're still only in command of a tiny tiny fraction of the total market share. For as passionate as you and I are about Apple and it's products, it's still a company that needs to make money, and stay in business, and not get entangled in legal issues that could hurt or even destroy it. We both see the major labels as becoming less relavent, and less powerful. Distribution is the largest portion of service major labels provide, and when that's irrelavent, they're irrelavent. The RIAA is a dying entity. They're not dead yet, but they're on their way out.<br><br>I suggest you listen to Harry Allen's Interactive Super Highway Phone Call to Chuck D<i>, off Public Enemy's <i>"Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age" ... which is available off the iTunes Music Store...