quickly, music socialnetworks are collasping nowadays before I even have chance to sign up. Soon their home pages will wink onto the internet like sparks from fire works and fade as quickly.

blog last night, and then read through the comments. Out of all the bands mentioned I had only heard of Frank Zappa, and Tool. I can live without both of those, but am getting a bit worried that it will spread to a lot of the music that I do listen to. I'm presuming that the companies, and artists are worried that the public will stop buying cds, but don't they get a royalty payment from spotify?

Filesharing is one thing, but a company that charges money is legally fair game to the record companies. They do have the law on their sides, and where there's money being made on their copyrighted material they have every right to go after it. Their entire business model is based on collecting royalties.

So many of these sites fail to iron out the legalities before going live.

Spotify they had licensing deals with the major labels as far back as October (http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1580569/spotify_announces_lic...). So why start taking music down now?

The current Napster (i.e. not the filesharing phenomenon) has been running a subscription service legally for quite a few years now. There's also Rhapsody in the US. It can be done.