FMC’s Casey Rae-Hunter thinks popular Web-streaming services like Pandora, Rhapsody, LastFM, Mog and Spotify could become more viable due to economies of scale. More users equal more revenue, and possibly lower prices for the service to consumers.

“It seems that consumers have been trained by the Internet to believe that they can get anything they want whenever they want,” he said. “The key is to make sure that the creator is getting paid somewhere.”