Artists (and distributors of art), like anybody else, deserve to be payed for what they do or deliver.
The WWW has made it possible to exchange information (including lyrics and high validity music) with near to no control possible and no loss of quality. This exchange (theft) just cannot be contained any longer except by a society we do not want to live in.
Therefore, what now is still considered theft will be legalised in the years to come and as a compensation the exchange of information will cost a bit more money than now and part of that money will go to the providers of information and part of it will got to the producers of information (artists, e.g.).
That is, you'll have to pay in distant future (like you pay now, perhaps without knowing, for the copies in a library) for services like Mudcat and the DT. Let's say you pay 5c per view of lyrics (whether you just glance at them or copy them to you local computer) and a bit of that'll go to the writer of the lyrics and a bit to Max. As for the tunes you'll have a choice between lower quality short versions to give you an idea what the music is like (5 c) or a maximum quality downloadable version (25c?).
Not all the details will be as I have predicted but I can't imagine a totally different course.Wolfgang