Napster has been good for the music business insofar as it's shown the ASCAP companies that online music is the future. Without Napster, we'd likely not have any online music sites at all.

But you're right, it's no good for artists. The future is more likely to be stuff like EMusic - you either pay some fairly average amount and get unlimited access to download what you want, or you pay per song; and the whole thing is legit. Even Napster is talking about having a pay-version to go legit. The trouble is that EMusic is fairly good quality but there's not much range of artists, whereas Napster already has a good range of artists but many songs are recorded at very low quality to keep the download size down.

Grab.