Major record labels criticise Google's music position
Google's legal music service, Google Play, "doesn't make sense" according to the UK's biggest record labels.
Billed as an alternative to piracy on Android devices, Google Play aims to "make it easy for consumers to acquire legal music," according to head of international licensing for Google Play, Sami Valkonen.
But the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) claims Google is still not doing enough to make it more difficult to find illegal sites. Despite promising to change the way it calculates site rankings back in August, demoting sites with a large number of "valid copyright removal notices".
BPI chief executive, Geoff Taylor, commented: "We don't think it makes any sense for them to be doing something which does support artists and then, on the other hand, undermine artists by referring consumers to illegal sites.
"We personally think that three months should be long enough to get it working."