Record Labels Ready Online Subscription Services

The world's big record labels are finally rolling out online subscription services smack in the middle of the holiday season that caps the music industry's worst year in at least a decade. In coming weeks, music fans -- who have for years been pulling everything from Radiohead to Madonna off the Web for free from services like Napster -- will be introduced to a new breed of money-for-music services like Pressplay and MusicNet, which have been developed by the major record companies.