The WSJ says that “proposals are still vague […] and it’s unclear whether it has struck any deals with record labels so far”. The proposed music strategy could also link into Android, Google’s own operating system for mobile.
Last month Google announced that it had acquired Simplify Media. It stated that it was working on a service that will allow Android users to stream music bought from Android Market and stored to their computers to their handsets. No launch date has been given by Google.
Google’s proposed à la carte service would, in theory, be an extension of its OneBox offering which launched last October, pushing user searches for music to external and legitimate services such as Pandora and MySpace. Yet these very search results are what has now attracted the interest of the BPI.
The BPI has reportedly requested Google “remove links to some popular filesharing sites..”
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse – a joint project between the EFF and several leading USA universities – claims to have been handed information pertaining to the BPI’s requests to Google.
It states that the BPI, in a letter dated June 11, contacted Google and requested that a number of listed links to its members’ copyrighted material be removed (see: http://tinyurl.com/2678m25). Named acts affected include Eninem, Dizzee Rascal, Ke$ha, Scouting For Girls and Michael Buble.
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