One of the questions we have for our copyright panel is: “Do technologists have increased market power due to their disruption of traditional content creation and distribution?”

As a counterpoint, I enjoyed this piece of news about Universal charging Microsoft for each Zune player sold.  Perhaps content providers are actually the ones finding increased market power due to non-standard DRM?  They can hold up entrants to the consumer electronics market and extract a fee for permission to use their content?  It reminds me of the ever-increasing programming fees cable and satellite companies have been paying (and passing on to the consumer).