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The best way to understand the situation facing iTunes is to look at other business models for distribution that don’t require the ownership of music. Take terrestrial radio, for example. One can live off this as a source of music forever and for free. Because the advertisers pay to have time in between songs to sell you stuff. The radio station uses this money to pay a per song fee to the record label for broadcasting the song.