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Our family spends just over a hundred dollars a month for cable. For that money, we have access to six hundred channels of music, movies and entertainment programs. If we decide to pay extra, we don't have to drive down to the local video rental store to watch the newest release which will be on next month as part of our subscription fee.

In my opinion, the media giants have somehow forgotten that they are in a business. They are so wedded to their disc creations that they've forgotten the concept of giving the market what it wants, and making a profit at the same time.

There have been a few steps in the right direction, but it will never work until they get off their duffs and offer open licenses in exchange for monthly fees through a third party. Give us $15 a month, and you can use x number of devices to play just about anything you want, when you want to. Give us $15 a month, and you can watch any television program when and where you want. Music distributors would kill to get every family in America to buy two CDs a month, but getting that same income through open licensing seems to be an alien construct to them.

Television media would love it if they could get the same revenue per household, and make some extra on the side for advertising.

Instead they continue to hold themselves captive to that magic disc. A magic disc that can be easily copied, distributed and resold, all without any additional profit, and protected by federal laws that have no justification under the US constitution.

I don't expect the court to agree. I expect that they will find a way to outlaw one form of technology as a holding action so that this battle can be fought another day in another court.

They are so wedded to their disc creations that they've forgotten the concept of giving the market what it wants, and making a profit at the same time.

In this case, the public wants free music. Not a lot of profitability in that.

I think groups like the MPAA thought they were distributing a disc and not the contents.

They can measure how many discs exist, electrons are a problem for them.

it is not the innovation, it is not the music, it is the royalty control the mpaa exercised.

If the court is to keep true, then it should follow the betamax decision. There are free market solutions which would "fix" their issue. It may just mean the solution does not include an MPAA