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Google Shies Away from Digital Music Sales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the world-domination-keeping-them-busy dept.

mytrip writes to tell us that Google has announced that they will not be getting in on the digital music sales market anytime soon. Analysts have been predicting the response of a "GTunes" service for months but Chris Sacca, head of business development at Google, dispelled those rumors in a recent address at the annual National Association of Recording Merchandisers conference in Florida. Sacca emphasized the need for "ecosystem development" and partnerships within the industry stating that they were the "big opportunity" in the digital music business.

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  1. No wonder Google doesn't want in-filetraders do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Digital music is a rough market to be in. The only ones making any money are Apple, and that's from iPods. If the music industry had any concept of developing a new market instead of sucking it dry for the last penny maybe you'd see more companies anxious to get involved. The current business model of suing file traders and restrictive DRM is probably just driving away customers."

    And yet, according to slashdot, illegal filetrading is suppose to help the music industry. Guess the utopia didn't pan out.

    "But the real problem is not that MP3s are easy to copy per se, but that computers have changed the rules of the game. The music industry needs to shift their focus to developing a better product, instead of crippling everything and then getting mad when people don't buy in."

    Ah the "blame the victum" argument. Problem is that all the material on piratebay shoots a hole in your argument. If the product is as bad as every illegal filetrader claims, why are you all downloading it?

    The only rule that technology has changed is "thou shall not steal".