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Google should recreate the music industry: please tweet this for our own good as music fans

Why bother doing agreements with old-fashioned boring and greedy record labels? Google has the most powerful platform to release new artists, which is Youtube. With the all mighty video service Google can create their own popstars from zero (Rebecca Black anyone?) and redesign the whole music industry from scratch. Imagine paying US$10 / yearly for all youtube music downloadable directly to your Android or iPhone or even better listening to it in the Google cloud. 

Plus, without the middlemen, i.e. the labels, the artists could get a nice cut from those yearly fee proportional to the amount of ear time each song has been played (I leave the math for Google engineers).

It strikes me that the whole tech industry is unncessarly courting EMI, Warner, Sony for nothing. As soon as Google music takes off (or for that matter itunes or Microsoft using the same idea) musicians (who hate the most record labels) will flock to the service. Even Gaga put her Album for USD 0,99 in Amazon. So here you go, it´s not about the labels, it´s about the consumer who will not pay US$15 for an album anymore, no matter how much law enforcement record labels put in.

I am hoping that someone in Google, or MS or Apple or Amazon reads this. Please tweet for our own good as music fans.

Cheers to a whole new music industry! 

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