I've often thought on a revolutionary model to turn the music industry on it's head, from the current gatekeeper/distributer model (which tries to fight against the 'promiscuity' of digital content) to a 'charitable' model, whereby a non-profit, trusted organization accepts a periodic donation from me and distributes royalties based on my actual listening history over a period of time (which could be adjustable at donation time if I prefer to give my money to an all-time favorite artist, or conversely to a new artist I want to hear more from).
The trusted organization would be where I'd go to download my open-source, torrenting music player & music discovery apps.
For this to work, you'd have to reinvent how to attribute a piece of music to an artist properly, in my ideal world middle men would be cut out, and the money would go directly to the composer/performer. The hard part, but the key to making me want to donate.