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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
That doesn't really make sense for this particular issue though, because Google is doing this without the cooperation of the record labels. You can't buy music on Google Music, just upload your own music to the cloud. Its basically Dropbox for music, just like the Amazon Cloud Player.
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That's a good point. Perhaps google has no ulterior motives and is just trying to limit the size of the beta through geographical restrictions and invitations to keep things manageable.
Alternatively, google understands that they will likely face legal challenges of one sort or another and have taken a calculated risk in doing so. Their legal team and defence fund is set up to first defend a challenge based on US law before worrying about dealing with these prickly legal issues in multiple countries. Fighting a war on two fronts usually doesn't work out too well for those combatants.