make the cost of the music download proportionately equal to the amount of downloads.
say, anywhere from a nickel to a dollar per song. they could update the totals in realtime so you dont have 10000 people getting the song at a nickel for 6 hours then the rest having to pay a quarter, and so on. the industry wins this way, the more people download the music, the more expensive it becomes. plus we win by only paying top dollar for popluar songs and paying lower prices for indie tunes or the less popular songs on the same album as the hit single your paying the dollars for.
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make the cost of the music download proportionately equal to the amount of downloads. say, anywhere from a nickel to a dollar per song. they could update the totals in realtime so you dont have 10000 people getting the song at a nickel for 6 hours then the rest having to pay a quarter, and so on. the industry wins this way, the more people download the music, the more expensive it becomes. plus we win by only paying top dollar for popluar songs and paying lower prices for indie tunes or the less popular songs on the same album as the hit single your paying the dollars for.