Indeed. Whatever happened to "With the internet, we can cut out the middlemen"? Suddenly, every corporation wants to set up tollboothes along the way and starts

Indeed. Whatever happened to "With the internet, we can cut out the middlemen"? Suddenly, every corporation wants to set up tollboothes along the way and starts demanding their cut. If this continues, in small steps, we'll be back at the old way, in which the content creator gets only a minimal share of the pie, and it's the distributors that get rich. I'm all for an open, "flat", neutral infrastructure, so there is no way I'll be buying any Apple products.