Google drive cloudplayer windows6/26/2023 ![]() I have all my music stored on my PC with a backup to another PC. I like music as much as the next guy.I have a portable player (it’s a phone too)that fits in my pocket so I can have my music everywhere I go…I can plug in my device to any other device so I and my friends can listen to my music, anywhere anytime. Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronology Which saves them money and allows them to grow faster. Most importantly they will stop all the internet crushing laws and treaties that will hobble them. ![]() They could make all their money back in a matter of about a year or two. A simple solution would be for them to each buy a record label. All four of these companies face serious problems in the future from ACTA, COICA, and all the other internet crushing, laws, and treaties being pushed forward by RIAA. Microsoft has a market cap of $215 Billion USD. EMI, SME, and UMG can probably be bought for around a billion USD each. Which in my opinion is highly overpriced for a company in a failing industry. Warner Music Group (WMG) is $1.1 billion USD and they are up for sale for around $2.5 billion USD. It would be nice if Google follows Amazon’s lead and calls the labels’ bluff on the idea that licenses are needed for this kind of service. That fits with what we’ve heard from other negotiations, where Warner Music puts absolutely ridiculous deal terms on the table and refuses to budge. Not surprisingly, the report names Warner Music as being the party that has been the worst to deal with in these negotiations. While it had been trying to negotiate licenses, rumors are coming out that it’s fed up with ridiculous demands from the labels and ready to follow Amazon’s lead in just offering up the service without any licenses. Hopefully it keeps up.Īt the same time, it appears that Google may be inspired by Amazon’s decision here to stand up against the idea that licenses are needed for digital lockers. It requires a license from content owners no more than those applications do. It requires a license from content owners no more than those other internet file back-up services do and no more than makers of external hard drives for PCs do.Ĭloud Player is a media management and play-back application not unlike Windows Media Player and any number of other media management applications that let customers manage and play their music. It?s your external hard-drive in the cloud. On top of that, it points out that, so far, the Cloud Drive appears to be driving more sales of MP3s.Ĭloud Drive is a general online storage service for all digital files, not unlike Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive and any number of other internet file back-up services. Amazon has sent a letter to the record labels, once again reiterating that it does not believe it needs licenses. Why should it require an extra license to let people listen to music they already have? However, we did worry that Amazon would simply cave in, rather than fight, as it wanted to remain on good terms with the record labels. After all, it was just letting people take music files they already had, and allowing them to store and stream them from the internet. ![]() And there’s a strong argument that it doesn’t need them. When Amazon launched its cloud music streaming service a few weeks ago, the big question concerned whether or not it needed licenses to do so. Wed, Apr 13th 2011 09:51am - Mike Masnick
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