So Internet radio still pays over half its revenues in royalties, even after a few well-intentioned Congressional interventions and inter-industry agreements over the past dozen years.
Europe believes a sat-nav system that is independent of GPS but inter-operable with it will drive a multi-billion euro industry in which receivers find their way into many more markets - from consumer mobile devices such as cell phones to safety-critical applications such as guided trains and buses.
In the automobile industry, probably the most globally inter-connected, the Nissan-Renault tie-up under Carlos Ghosn that seems to be working may be the exception that proves the rule.
The industry is also caught in a web of inter-enterprise debt: it owes 7 billion hryvnyas to its workers and suppliers, and is in turn owed 3 billion hryvnyas by its customers, mostly power stations.
Popkin is a close collaborator with Brownell, and they co-authored a paper calling for a soda tax which, inter alia, also claims that industry is distorting the data.