With all that's been going on with the RIAA and poor Jammie Thomas, you might want to have a look a Umair Haque's post on how Radiohead's approach to distributing music will likely turn the music industry's business model on its head.
Meanwhile, Mathew Ingram adds a little balance to the argument and questions the band's motives behind the new distribution model, but he concludes that the power in the music industry appears to be shifting away music execs and toward musicians.