Google Music and a few other new cloud services by Apple and Amazon have raised a lot of new questions about piracy and file sharing, with some Recording Industry of America legal minds calling such services a way to "launder" pirated songs. Both Google and Amazon, which allow users to upload their music to a cloud locker (a reserved piece of storage on a remote server), launched without first securing license agreements with major record labels. Many observers are wondering when the lawsuits will begin.
The RIAA has spent more than the last 10 years in a all out scorched-earth campaign to try and enforce copyrights and crackdown on file sharing services. Yet 10 years later, there's little evidence that the lawsuits and threats have done much to stop people from downloading whole albums illegally, which for even the least tech savvy users takes a quick Google search and 5 minutes to download a compressed .rar or .zip file. Sales are still really low... so low in fact that Cake was able to top the Billboard Album Charts in the last 6 months. Cake!
