
Well i'm pleased.
I pay for GMAA, as it's easilly the best music service available in the UK, with the best catalog, the best apps, and the most open device access.
So for me, what is already really good, just got even better.
The year's most controversial new music service has arrived - with a sense of anticlimax. Google's YouTube music streaming subscription service has finally been confirmed - with indie labels on board. "Google YouTube Music Key" (yes, it's really called that) feels provisional, a cog in a bigger picture. As the comments under …
[Indie musicians] must also vow never to sue a UGC uploader of their own material. In other words, Google was saying: we'll have your music whether you sign this or not.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can't be held to the terms of a contract you don't sign. Perhaps you meant "[...] we'll have your music whether you upload it or someone else does?"
... what were Google trying to slip in under the radar while everyone was distracted with the outcry over indie musicians?
We see the same thing in politics all the time - wait for (or create) a media storm over something, and use it to push through a whole load of nastiness aimed at longer term gain on the sly.