61.   Online shopping sites like Amazon.com and Borders already offer ways for consumers and recording companies to bypass retail stores.

62.   Paranoid listeners might see DVD as a last-ditch effort by recording companies to maintain control of music in the digital era.

63.   Online shopping sites like Amazon.com and Borders already offer ways for consumers and recording companies to bypass retail stores, and this trend will continue.

64.   Perversely, recording companies worked to convince the public that all those tortured or superhuman characters were interchangeable.

65.   Part of the fee will be turned over to the recording companies, mirroring the current royalty system.

66.   Recording companies are being attacked on all sides.

67.   Recording companies have avoided releasing early versions on the Internet, fearing that they would hurt sales and encourage piracy.

68.   Recording companies should be compensated for music delivered online, he said.

69.   Radio stations, MTV and recording companies now market hit songs, not the musicians who make them, training listeners for short attention spans.

70.   Recording companies had written into typical contracts that sound recordings are works for hire, commissioned by the company or made by performers and technicians hired as employees.