Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff spoke about the deal with Business Week Frankfurt Bureau Chief Jack Ewing. Now, you're embracing it. We have to deal with file-sharing. We can't criminalize 37 million users. We have to develop business models that are legal.
Somebody has to take the lead for the industry.
Napster users aren't used to having to pay for music. Subscribers in a first step would pay a fixed amount of money. We will give the money back to companies, publishers, and artists. We're inviting all the other music companies to join. I've talked to other media companies, though I don't want to give their names.