Actually, that's not correct. I've been doing some research on this as things have been coming to the surface and developing and it turns out that this is actually a well laid out plan by the RIAA and MPAA to milk the existing system as long as possible by making it as difficult as possible for the newer systems to get off the ground and take hold.

There are two primary reasons for this. 1) They want to milk existing CD sales as much as possible, and 2) they want time to get new income and revenue streams in place before finally giving in and allowing the new systems to fully take hold.

So in a way, they're just using this as an excuse to stall as long as possible while they change over their business model. Part of the slowness of the changeover is their large number of contracts. As each contract comes up for renewal, they're going to change them and go after every other possible revenue stream the artists have, even areas (such as concerts) that the music bosses couldn't touch before. So in short, the music industry will become what we want it to be, music will finally be freed, but artists will still get screwed over by the media giants nickle and diming them to death.