According to any number of sources -- and indications from Google itself -- Google Music should have launched sometime late last year. We're now a full month into 2011, and still no Google Music. So what's the holdup?Business Insider has one source who feels that Google's cloud-based model is the bone of contention. "The challenge is that the publishers want to be paid for EVERY download - even if it's a verified purchaser downloading a song they've purchased multiple times." Yes, that is totally insane. Especially when you consider the fact that some of those labels are already selling tracks on 7digital, which allows users to download their purchases and stream them to a mobile device via the 7digital app.
One Sony exec was quoted as saying, "We are very uncomfortable with a model where you can just throw anything into the cloud and stream it, if what you threw into the cloud was not legitimately purchased." Interestingly, this comes from the same Sony that allows my wife to dump any old MP3 she wants onto her Walkman -- regardless of how she acquired it.
Is Google Music's cloud model causing record labels to steer clear? originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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