An Amazon MP3 takes one click to purchase. Don't think it's ever going to get any easier than that.

Not available outside the U.S.

for all the tea in China THIS!

Is there a bit torrent site where I can download some Google shares?

How about this: All the GOOG patents should be freely searchable. Maybe a bunch of source code and trade secrets as well for good measure. Everyone can help themselves to this IP as they see fit for either personal or commercial gain. Once there is enough of it out there and widely accessible, a new company called SnoogTube can launch and organize it really well and sell advertising against it. So it's all free and ad supported and completely severed from the humans and intellects that created it in Mountainview. How does that sound? 

It amazes me that an artist and/or their financier can spend a year and a hundred thousand dollars writing and recording music, and then another few million marketing it but GOOG thinks it's fine to just serve it up on a platter for free and sell ads against it to fill its own coffers. They monetize a few of them so they can send the labels and rights holders a check, but everyone knows the vast majority of the creative output from artists is simply exploited with no remuneration at all. GOOG has said publicly that "artists ought to be amazed at the WW promotion it can provide." To what end exactly? To sell t-shirts and concert tickets? Are those more valuable than the art itself now. GOOG should really consider putting its money where its mouth is and letting artists and songwriters use all its shit for free and monetize it. Or maybe just stop ripping everyone off! 

I like your idea. But there must be one more detail; SnoogTube must have a law (the DMCA) that says they can't be prosecuted if they are simply looking the other way when their customers are taking Goofles IP

I wish I could buy from Amazon in Canada, we don't have any real option other than iTunes

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.”

Notice how the article specifically mentions Google by name, with "Google searches". It doesn't say "search engine results" or searches on the various search engines", or "Google, Bing and Yahoo! searches".

Stay tuned Total Criminalization will be here shortly.

Is a horrible user experience perpetuating digital piracy? Well, dinosaur regulations certainly don't help either.

It seems reasonable that if I have cable and want HBO - I pay with the understanding that it helps HBO keep their lights on, make more shows etc.

Here's the thing -- that logic has never applied to Verizon, COX, Time Warner etc. when it comes to music. 

Feel free to school me.  

In 1998 I was in the US and was shown a device from the UK on trial that was going to revolutionize the distributing and payment to the composer, performer of royalties. It was about the size of  the old fashion 32" television set....in the future I was told these "machines" would be in gas stations, drug stores,walmarts etc.The "device" would be linked back to a central server...you could purchase a couple of songs and download to your ipod type of receiver. This is the interesting bit....the payments would be divided up immediately and sent  to the appropriate vendors...to the record company, publisher , collecting agency or even directly to say a self published singer songwriter. Does anyone know what happened to this equipment...did it not work and was it canned or did certain "powers" decide it was not beneficial to their future.

cipher 

@cipher

Without knowing the exact model, product, etc., I'd hazard a guess that this was one of several 'kiosk' concepts floating around. Pre-iPod, pre-iTunes Store and the rest, the idea was that digital downloads from a physical kiosk would be adopted - and more than that, even enhance physical floorspace and 'grow the pie'.  Perhaps this was a play at controlling the device, the kiosk, and even the online portion.

At the time, there were reasons to think this could have worked, though now clearly technology seems to have rendered it mostly unworkable.  Which would explain why 'kiosk' is mosty a negligible line-item today, at least as it relates to recordings.  

Not sure how the rest of the electronics kiosk space is doing; I've seen lots of interesting vending machines with iPods, Beats headphones, etc., mostly at LAX (we're LA-based).

/paul

Yes...That one big hoop of paying anything for shit.

Ridiculous argument. What hoops? It's just as easy to buy a CD as ever, and it's even easier (assuming one has a credit card, or Paypal,etc) to buy music online: iTunes, Amazon, emusic, etc....

This is disingenuous rationalization. Google is making it too easy to steal, and therefore an accomplice. Google is able to block other sorts of sites which are deemed criminal based on content, so I am sure it is technically possible to filter out intellectual property piracy sites.

Either that or Google can just pay a percentage of its revenues to content creators. 

- Versus

At some point in the future the whole music industry will join forces,the copyright violators starting with google and moving downwards will be permanently removed,this is on the cards now,we intend to start this year,we hit there bank balances to the point there out of business

Long live the pirate bay!

After bitching and whining about Spotify for a year I'm over it. 21,000,000,000 songs were streamed (and tracked by Neilsen last year) vs. 1,300,000,000 tracks purchased individually. You don't have to me a math wizard to see that this number is going to grow exponentially.   

It will take about 5, to maybe 10, more years for hardware to becomes ubiquitous with streaming software.  Watch it become part of your car, your television and maybe even your refrigerator.  This is how music will scale again.  Get your Spotify/Deezer/Rdio/MOG account and get used to it.    

If you're an artist, I'd start kissing all of these companies asses immediately.  Ask how you can get featured, ask for exclusives or maybe even make exclusive content for them.   

Stop caring what the labels, Google or Pirate Bay is doing and start putting your marketing time/dollars into working relationships that will help your music get into more ears. 

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