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One of the issues the content owners aren't really keen to admit in public most of the time:
I buy some music. As it happens, I went to a store today and bought Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon: Prairie Home Invasion. Having paid for it, I expect to listen to it on my living room stereo, the computer in my office, the cd player in my car, and my iPod.
The content providers want me to pay once for the living room stereo, once for the computer, once for the iPod, and again for the car player.
More than that, they want to stick me with a charge everytime I hit the "play" button.
Pay per view makes sense for some things, like movies. (How many freakin' times can you actually watch Lord of the Rings anyway?) For music and books, it makes no freakin' sense from the customer perspective.
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