Here it is – this is a freebie for all the record companies, this is the way to make piracy go away, and in turn, be the future of music distribution for the entire modern world and completely change the business of music. I’m calling this in 2007, we’ll see if it comes true.

As pervasive fast wireless Internet becomes a standard throughout the nation, the concept of an iPod will be replaced with a device that will stream and cache digital music that is supplied online via music download services. Any time you want, you will be able to pull down any album and listen to it for a flat monthly fee, just like you can with Napster/Zune/et al. Furthermore, you can do the same thing (albeit slower) with television shows and movies.

This solves the MP3 piracy problem not through lockdown DRM, but by making the concept of pirating MP3s inferior – why bother downloading files to your computer if you can just pull them off the net when you want them?