It's frustrating to keep hearing this come up as someone living in Germany. Europe is a big place, and Spotify is available in only a handful of countries; namely France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, UK.
Apple seems to be interested in their permission. What a lot of people miss, but was spelled out in Jason Kincaid's TC article* is that label permission is not so much about lawsuits but about making it massively more convenient for the user by bypassing the upload step.
Why should they? It's my music that I'm simply storing in another location. Do the music execs actually think that they have a right to be upset about this? (I ask this seemingly rhetoric question because after Amazon launched their service apparently there were threats and rumblings from some of them)
Sure, they have a right to not license their music for sale on the service, and that's their own ignorance. Someone needs to slap them across the face with Steam. I've spent hundreds of times more dollars on games than I have music, and I exclusively buy games on Steam because of the convenience and because of the "cloud" aspect. My games themselves, saves, etc, synced and available anywhere?
My usic synced and available everywhere? And free storage if I buy it? I can click a button and have the latest Lupe Fiasco album on ALL of my devices instantly? I would happily, HAPPILY hand over $10/album for that convenience.
They just don't get it, and pirating and free/cheap private storage will benefit from their loss.
The labels are understandably worried that people will just share their lockers with friends in the same way people shared cassette tapes back in the day.
Of course labels want to double dip as much as they can; they have a dying product after all, it's natural to try and milk it as much as possible.
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No one seems to be respecting/fearing the music companies any more, not even big companies.
Seems a bit premature. You still can't..
* listen to Pandora outside the US
* or Amazon Cloud Player outside the US
* or Spotify outside Europe
* buy music from Apple's iTunes Music Store US catalog in Japan
That's true, I should've said Spotify outside a few European countries.
Apple seems to be interested in their permission. What a lot of people miss, but was spelled out in Jason Kincaid's TC article* is that label permission is not so much about lawsuits but about making it massively more convenient for the user by bypassing the upload step.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/without-the-labels-googles-...
Why should they? It's my music that I'm simply storing in another location. Do the music execs actually think that they have a right to be upset about this? (I ask this seemingly rhetoric question because after Amazon launched their service apparently there were threats and rumblings from some of them)
Sure, they have a right to not license their music for sale on the service, and that's their own ignorance. Someone needs to slap them across the face with Steam. I've spent hundreds of times more dollars on games than I have music, and I exclusively buy games on Steam because of the convenience and because of the "cloud" aspect. My games themselves, saves, etc, synced and available anywhere?
My usic synced and available everywhere? And free storage if I buy it? I can click a button and have the latest Lupe Fiasco album on ALL of my devices instantly? I would happily, HAPPILY hand over $10/album for that convenience.
They just don't get it, and pirating and free/cheap private storage will benefit from their loss.
The labels are understandably worried that people will just share their lockers with friends in the same way people shared cassette tapes back in the day.
Of course labels want to double dip as much as they can; they have a dying product after all, it's natural to try and milk it as much as possible.