IMHO the *AAs are loosers due to their incompetence in the world using digital media and online services. Instead of pushing all these Sonys and BMGs into trying to understand new technologies and be able to introduce a product that will be attractive (as Apple did with iPod), they are holding ground with something not attractive for anyone who is under 35 - like rootkits on audio CDs, DVD regions and stuff like this, all of them *saying* that all customers are criminals.
The problems with new products based on mp3 and online xfers are severe: first of all - publishers will have lower margins, this is outweighted by no price for media, booklet, case etc. The other problem I see is that if some publishing house publishes CD full of songs sang by some fscking trumpet, You have to buy *all* the songs, even if You want only *one* hit. If anyone implements pay per song model, there will be problem what to do with tons of bubblegum sh*t nobody wants to listen to and which in that case are generating no money. It is much easier to sell all songs and let the consumer use the skip button on his CD player. Now is too late - no one sharing his favourite (and only them) songs for free is going to pay for bag of sh*t on prehistoric CDDA with rootkit on 1st track - *AAs will stay on the looser side - not due to people stealing something, but due to their 10 years ignorance of new technologies and banning them, instead of embracing them.
