Google has had somewhat of an odd relationship over the years to music information, and music information retrieval. They’ve never really had a consistent policy, research, or product agenda around music. The specifics of that history is too rich to recount in its entirety here; if readers are interested, perhaps that can be the subject of future blog entries. Instead, I’ll pass along this little tidbid from the Read/Write Web blog. It seems that a clever teenager had written a media player application that streams music directly from Google’s YouTube service, bypassing Google’s web pages. Here is the jist of the controversy:
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