[insipid]

> I now pay more per month for music than I did at any other time in my life

Me too, but I don't feel that that's a win for the music industry, I see that as a win for me.

I didn't engage with a business model that didn't work for me, like millions of others; and eventually a business model emerged that I was willing to support. Maybe Napster lost, but I still got what I wanted, and it seems like the record labels did too.

Why would you assume the same thing is impossible for online publishing?

[bduerst]

Probably because it's the same principal of creative content consumption.

Sure you've got your go-to artists and albums, but music discovery is so much easier when you have an all-access pass to everything.

Same goes with the news - you'll always have your BBCs, Reuters, etc. but you also want to see something new and creative, which [probably] wouldn't have got off the ground if it required paid consumption models.