Sinnreich adds that new tools for copying music and other media are no doubt waiting to take Napster's place. While the law, adequately enforced, is now satisfactory to deal with the current band of Internet pirates, it may not be good enough to deal with the next wave bearing larger swords and faster ships. The music industry has to come up with something that's superior and to keep up its aggressive enforcement of copyrights. He suggests a subscription model where customers can have unlimited access to a library of songs for a set price and artists would be paid out of the fund. Users can store music from their personal collections on the Web site and access by connecting to the Net anywhere.
Users can also listen to music stored on the site by the company.
Myplay also compensates publishing and record companies for playing their songs, says CEO Doug Camplejohn . Evidence suggests, though, that at least some Napster fans prefer to do the wrong thing. A previous version of this story omitted the exception. Fill in this form for your free trial issue. U.S. indexes are real-time.