Robertson's business model, based on his plans to make MP3 "an MSP, or music service provider," is far from fine-tuned, but would split subscription revenues between artists and labels, and MP3.com.

Robertson, who admitted the recording industry isn't rushing to adopt his ideas, is also trying to push the phrase 'music service providers,' or MSPs, which he coined to describe all Internet music companies in the same way ISP refers to Internet service providers.

ComStream…recently entered into an agreement to provide the industry's first digital audio receiver capable of delivering 120 channels of CD quality 20 KHz stereo music to DMX For Business, a business music service provider to retail organizations throughout the United States.