Tuesday, March 31st 2009
Google Launches Free Music Site
Google's Chinese free music download service (here) has now been officially launched to provide legal, quality tracks to the Chinese people. Google is cooperating with www.top100.cn on this project. Currently, the service offers about 350,000 songs from both Chinese and international artists. In the upcoming months, this number should increase to around 1.1 million tracks.
The service has the blessing of all major record labels - Warner, Universal, Sony BMG and EMI, and sees Google share the advertising revenue generated by the download site with content providers. This enables users to get their music legally and should also help lower the piracy levels in China.
Source:
TechConnect
The service has the blessing of all major record labels - Warner, Universal, Sony BMG and EMI, and sees Google share the advertising revenue generated by the download site with content providers. This enables users to get their music legally and should also help lower the piracy levels in China.
35 Comments on Google Launches Free Music Site
It's not about money -- it's about control. Music companies/governments/recording organizations don't really care that they're losing profit (though of course they're not happy about it) -- much more important to them is that piracy causes them to lose control over what kind of music you're listening to.
If they can get everybody downloading from this site, and being used to downloading from this site, then they can gain back that control.
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doesnt work first time, i got an error page, refreshing it fixed it though ;)