If the music industry is going to pull out of its nosedive and create a new model that makes sense, it's going to need some kind of ownership that has the capacity to take risks.

Clearly, this is a coordinated attack against Apple's dominance in the digital music arena.

I think that the most important effect of this legal setback for (MP3.com) is that they might have to capitulate and play ball in a way that they haven't been willing to in the past.

It's a long-haul business right now. It will be at least three years before anyone can make a serious profit selling digital music.

It's prohibitively expensive to deliver high-quality music over wireless Internet streaming. That's where the benefit of satellite radio comes in.

China is a huge market and the majors don't sell that many units there. Someone has to be filling that demand.