I think the music industry is (understandably) clinging to their last straws these days. Piracy and the total loss of their prior, insane profit margins on phys

I think the music industry is (understandably) clinging to their last straws these days. Piracy and the total loss of their prior, insane profit margins on physical media are draining them fast. Nonetheless their current "parasite" model can prevail as long as they control the broadcast channels. But technical progress should mostly do away with that, too. It just takes time. Eventually car-radios will begin to support recommendation-based IP streams (ala last.fm) in addition to the current pre-select. I expect that to become the tipping point from where the consumers will gradually reverse the mainstream (from top-down to bottom-up).