> I now pay more per month for music than I did at any other time in my life

Me too, but I don't feel that that's a win for the music industry, I see that as a win for me.

I didn't engage with a business model that didn't work for me, like millions of others; and eventually a business model emerged that I was willing to support. Maybe Napster lost, but I still got what I wanted, and it seems like the record labels did too.

Why would you assume the same thing is impossible for online publishing?