Players gonna play (play, play): Google confirms YouTube Music 'access all areas' key

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 …

[Anonymoist Cowyard]

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.

[User McUser]

IANAL, but...

[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?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Google has two versions of everything

That's the way they chase all possible use cases.

[dogged]

GYTMK

Pronounced "Git Milton Keynes".

[Jan Hargreaves]

Almost any song... what?

"Google correctly claims that almost any song in the world is already posted on YouTube, somewhere."

You are kidding right? There are so so many songs I want to share with people but they are not on YouTube. Do you only like Taylor Swift or something?

[RyokuMas]

The real question is...

... 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.