Right now, there isn't much of a market for selling content, but Apple could eventually complement its offerings with paid subscriptions,

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.

Gnutella is a decentralized system. There's no single server that tells you all the information of who's got what. So there's no single point in the continuum that you can force to shut down, ... If you take half of the computers that use Gnutella off the system, the other half will still work just fine.