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bossm4nMay 12, 2011
Grabs popcorn. This is gonna be good.
richardboreanMay 12, 2011
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JerBoiMay 13, 2011
A+
cybersaurMay 12, 2011
If the music cartels hate it then I'm all for it! Go Google!
emfkMay 12, 2011
Grab a tissue and cry us a river. Poor music labels. Get over yourselves.
darkmatter911May 12, 2011
Go Google!
darkwater37May 13, 2011
Frankly my dear music labels, I don't give a damn
macparrotMay 12, 2011
Content copyright is still important. The music companies do deserve compensation for their investments in the artist. HOWEVER, to constantly bleat about poor music sales (which really means people are buying fewer and fewer CDs which gives them the greatest return) and the nearly unforgivable act of not preparing for the future of digital downloads which was so freaking obvious a blind man couldn't miss it.
What the major labels really fear is loss of control. Not because of piracy, they know they can't stop it and it isn't as widespread as they want people to believe, what they REALLY fear is loss of control of their artists. BITD, it would take engineers, producers, technicians, millions of dollars of equipment, and big studios to record an album, make mass amounts of cassettes, CDs, or records and distribute them to the outside world through the many record music chains that they more or less dictated prices to. Now with computers and almost any decent DAW software, a cheap mixer, and some good microphones, almost any band can create their own music and distribute it themselves digitally through iTunes, Amazon, Google, and any number of distributers for next to nothing.
Their gravy train is almost over, they know it, and are hanging on to evey penny they can.
thelocstaMay 12, 2011
Another Music Industry Revolution iz in progress and I'm so fortunate, az an independent artist to be apart of it. I love what Google iz doing..providing a forum for the entire war to be played out right in front of the entire world and capitalizing at the sametime. Google doesn't want any part of thiz war between artist and labelz..independentz and the Bloodsucking traditional music industry...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
inajeepMay 12, 2011
Grabs baby oil and a barry mannilow record ... wait what?
adml_shakeMay 12, 2011
I think you know whats about to happen here....
macewanMay 13, 2011
Tip of the hat to Google. Question: how long before these idiot music executives retire?
richardboreanMay 12, 2011
Oh, Google! How I do love thee!
michirican123May 13, 2011
Funny that the record labels were trying to use their one-sided contracts on Google the same way they shoot hungry artists in the feet.. Shows how one-track these guys are
julie188May 12, 2011
I love free music, but Google has grabby fingers and thinks that everyone should give away whatever they own, to store it on Google's servers so Google can make the money selling ads against it. No good guys here.
thoughtsonthisMay 12, 2011
Shame on them!
ferencofbudaMay 13, 2011
f**k the greedy scumbag music labels who have been ripping off artists and consumers for 50+ years! The sooner the big 4 crash and burn, the better it will be for everyone else.
Closed AccountMay 13, 2011
Artists don't need a label these days with online distribution. They can keep 100% instead of the 1-5% they get now.
qwertywatcherMay 13, 2011
hmmm.. no i think i will magically continue to replicate ones and zeros through the use of electricy that i pay for.
and continue to pay to go to concerts for an original experience that cannot be replicated that way.
JerBoiMay 13, 2011
i feel a little hesitant about all this cloud nonsense. if it crashes, we are all f**ked
suite307May 13, 2011
Sucks huh... not being able to bully a company bigger than yours.
twitch14May 12, 2011
The RIAA has $700 billion coming to them, right? So what's a pittance from Google? </sarcasm>
thelocstaMay 12, 2011
Can anyone say...Sean Parker..Shawn Fanning...Napster. History never failz to repeat itself within the Music Industry....
pw378May 13, 2011
Big difference between accessing "your music" and "anyones music"
wilhoitmMay 12, 2011
I thought Google was supposed to do no evil?
adml_shakeMay 12, 2011
How exactly was this evil? If the labels see it as bad, it can only be good for the listeners.
breadfredMay 12, 2011
Please explain - how is this evil?