[kevkrom]

So then tell me what did Apple do to actually make the music they are using and paying $0.002 a play on?

They don't make the content. They provide the marketplace and infrastructure for that content to be consumed. That's their value added.

Or Netflix's. Or Pandora's. Or...

[Mad Dawgg]

"They don't make the content."

Yeah they just make the big bucks off of it. And at the same time while they rake in that fat stacks it is just another reason for customers to buy less physical Media which is Ironic because it is where Indies are starting to actually make a decent living.