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Store and play up to 20,000 of your songs on the internet for free:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/google_music/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/google_music/
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Sad thing is the majors want to charge you for streaming your own music - that you've already paid for - and are either already suing or about to to make it happen.
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Why is google doing this? This really doesn't make sense. If you have a hard drive then you have your songs stored there. Why store them on the internet? To back your music up? If you don't back your information to a USB device or DVDs you are way behind the power curb. You can't share them with anyone with this service. That would be piracy.
I just don't see the point. There are dozens of sites already doing similar services.
I just don't see the point. There are dozens of sites already doing similar services.
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Access to your music everywhere, that's why. Google is doing it because they will put ads on it and generate revenue.
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I agree.
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The goals, as I see them, are
a) to either push ads at you or charge a premium tier fee for the convenience of storing your own stuff.
b) to get in good with the music industry by getting folks to use this convenient method that is also DRM friendly and inhibits sharing.
Those are the near-term goals. The ultimate goal will probably be to sell you DRM'd music and help the music industry stay relevant as it works toward its own ultimate goal: pay-per-play.
a) to either push ads at you or charge a premium tier fee for the convenience of storing your own stuff.
b) to get in good with the music industry by getting folks to use this convenient method that is also DRM friendly and inhibits sharing.
Those are the near-term goals. The ultimate goal will probably be to sell you DRM'd music and help the music industry stay relevant as it works toward its own ultimate goal: pay-per-play.
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Like the zune pass you mean?
I would pay google for the streaming service but surely not the music industry. Unfortunately they want our money.
How is this different than listening to music on an iPod? If I don't stream anything publicly I don't see how they would justify charging anything. But maybe their plan is to have you pay anytime you turn your stereo on.
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Spot on. The dogs got let out when mp3 was invented and record companies have been trying to poison those dogs ever since. They can jam their DRM right up their clacker, if I buy it it's my music to listen to as I choose.
The worrying thing is that the Gen-Y ers will jump on it and make it popular, not realising that they are being had, just like DJ's really - the Milli Vanilli of Gen Y.
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Nah, I think they realize full well what's going on. Most of them hate everything the MPIAA and RIAA stand for.
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That fight is over and the record industry lost.
But other sites don't offer nearly as much storage for free.
There is always a price. I would rather they target me with my favorite artists. It could actually be a win win situation in some cases.
Who doesn't use Google? Saxontheweb.net is running numerous data collecting scripts on you right now including ones by Google, Facebook and Amazon among others.
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I understand this but I've run into a lot of people that don't know this. Maybe even some here.
And my use of Google, except for the search is limited.
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Shock horror.... they might find out what country I'm in... and what browser I use. Oh the intrusion of it all. :mrgreen::mrgreen:
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At some point I sort of gave up. I have script blocking software in Firefox but now I use mostly Google Chrome. There is a similar plugin for Chrome but I got lazy about this battle.
Exactly...your collection of Ornette, Coltrane etc will be analyzed and they will then send targeted ads to you based on your preferences. You like Miles Davis? Here's the new box set.
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