Reply #35: Yes, you can it has been done.

[Kurska]

Pandora internet radio is a ad supported product that uses genre and tags to create unique radio stations that plays the music you like. Spotify charges a monthly fee and lets you stream music. I actually get most of my music through Zune Marketplace because I can pay one flat fee per month, download all the music I like, have it all be in a central location that is easy to search and very fast to download from and If I my computer dies, I can redownload all my music at the touch of one button.

On all these services the music is higher quality, easier to find, no risk of viruses, but all of them are still relatively new and defiantly aren't the only solution to the problem of paying people for their music.

I can't tell you what will work in the digital age if I could I'd be a very rich man right now, but I can tell you what isn't going to work. No one is going to be able to sue the marketplace into a worse system just because we've been using that system for year. My generation has grown up not shackled by the record labels free with the ability to experiment in musical tastes and have been exposed to a post record label world.

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-killing-music-radioheads-guitarist-says-100124/

"According to O’Brien the music industry is using analogue business models in a digital age. “You’ve got to license out more music, more Spotifys, more websites selling more music. You’ve got to make it slightly cheaper as well to get music in order to compete with the peer-to-peers.”"

Good reading, by the by.