I think that the most important effect of this legal setback for (MP3.com) is that they might have to capitulate and play ball in a way that they haven't been willing to in the past.
It's prohibitively expensive to deliver high-quality music over wireless Internet streaming. That's where the benefit of satellite radio comes in.
It's a long-haul business right now. It will be at least three years before anyone can make a serious profit selling digital music.
China is a huge market and the majors don't sell that many units there. Someone has to be filling that demand.
