finding ways to get free music and pay artists? (Score 1)

ok this is maybe an utopia but I 've been thinking about a way to pay artists and keep nusic free in the last few weeks.There must be a legal way to make this happen... for instance, if there were a web site with commercial mp3s to download, it could live with advertising and give the ads money to the most downloaded artists? so artists would be paid, users would download all day for free and most of all, music companies would be useless. the problem is that it would maybe be difficult for a web site to survive while giving all (or part of) the money earned with advertising, but if that kind of thing happened I would be pleased to be part of it and help it for free. (sorry for my english)