Apple has played back-up to another player in its market for decades. But in the online music industry, Apple is the undisputed king. Now Apple is feeling some of the pressures of success and from an unexpected source - there has long been a bit of tension between the recording industry and Apple over the sheer dominance of iTunes music ...

It’s a classic struggle between the RIAA and file sharing and it’s just not going away. But, the at the root of this issue is a very simple one of market supply vs demand. The supply of music is much greater than the demand. And this is why the RIAA is losing. Someday the market will have to come to grips with the truth that recorded music ...