Why isn't there a site like Netflix for music?

[kopper]

I friggin' love Netflix, especially now that I've figured out how to have separate queues for my own movies (separate from my wife and kid's lists, I mean). I also really dig how it also gives you the option to watch a movie right there on site, right away. It makes me wish there was a (legit) site like that where you could "rent" albums from bands, so that they're sent to you in little mailers. Then you can sign in and rate them, and recommend them to your friends and all that. Is there such an animal? Or is there something (oh, like our good friends at the RIAA) that is preventing such a website from starting? I mean, you can rent CDs from the library, so what's keeping this sort of service from coming online?

[kopper]

OK, so I'm still trying to get to the bottom of this... is the copyright law as it applies to music recordings somehow that different from the copyright law as it applies to films and other published works (i.e. allowing films and [I'm assuming] books to be rented, but not allowing this for music)? I realize WHY rentals for movies works better and yadda yadda yadda, but that still doesn't mean it wouldn't work at all for renting music... that is unless the law is written in such a way as to totally make that unlawful to do so.

[kopper]

Uh, no... Netflix operates just as ANY video rental place does. It simply rents movies out to customers for a fee. Why would the film industry have a problem with that? Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc. all operate in the same way...

[kopper]

We're kind of going around in circles on this topic now... did you read through the posts on the first page?