Music as a service
I predict that “Music as a service” or Music 2.0 will be the new way to deliver music in 2008. Music as a service allows users to listen and play any music anytime they want. On top they will get suggestions from other users. This will all be monthly billed, just like you subscribe to a newspaper. So as long as you pay the subscription fee you will be able to listen to all the music you can wish for.
“Music as a service holds an incredible opportunity for the recording industry,” Michael Robertson (president of MP3.com) said. “But the industry isn’t going to grow by selling CDs, it will grow when the labels begin to think about this business as a service.”
“The key to piracy isn’t to do a drug-war strategy, with brute force out to crush the pirates,” Robertson. “They key is to make a better drug.”