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Google Launches Free Music Site

Something stateside like this would be awesome.
 
you could just route your IP through a chinese proxy.
 
Just find a proxy server to convince teh internets that you are in china (there must be loads working the other way around given how much is banned) and its all the free music you could want :roll:
 
it is work with me
 
wtf did the chose china for, china has just about more piracy than every country in the world combined

That's the point. The country with the worst piracy gets the free music, because no one will pay for it anyway.

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.
 
It also says to me if we can have setup with google in China and have the record industries approval then they can clearly do similar stuff in other markets surely.
 
It also says to me if we can have setup with google in China and have the record industries approval then they can clearly do similar stuff in other markets surely.

Oh, they certainly will -- but not until fighting it tooth-and-nail, first. There's far more people still buying CD's in Western countries than there ever was in China, which I don't think really ever had much of a market of non-pirated... anything. :laugh:
 
Id be happy enough to put up with bucketloads of advertising if it meant i could get free legal music wich wasnt from bands no ones heard of.
 
Just use these proxy settings in your browser then go to the site :)

ip: 211.99.188.218
port: 80

doesnt work first time, i got an error page, refreshing it fixed it though ;)
 
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