In the old days, manufacturing plants and distribution networks created sizeable barriers to entry which kept upstarts out of the record companies' business.

ECONOMIST: A new song

If manufacturing and distribution are no longer barriers to entry, the scary question for the record companies is whether any other barriers to entry remain.

ECONOMIST: The record industry takes fright

"Apple's entry created new competition in eBook distribution and a vastly larger pool of eBook consumers, " it wrote in its motion.

WSJ: U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers on E-Book Pricing

Also, because the Australians have gained faster entry to some foreign markets, they may offer distribution deals to U.S. wine exporters.

FORBES: Chateau Southcorp

Antigua, the largest of the Leeward Islands, and its sister island Barbuda make up a two-island state whose temperatures and humidity around the year are very similar to those described in the general entry for the Caribbean, as are the amount and distribution of sunshine.

BBC: Weather - Antigua and Barbuda

The company hopes that two other things will act as barriers to entry: the size of its library and the efficiency of its distribution system.

ECONOMIST: Three-dimensional imaging