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Re:Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry by inkaudio on Friday April 15, 2011 @10:18PM (#2452980)
Google cannot buy the entire music industry because the music industry is more than the so called major labels. That said, Google or even Apple\Microsoft could buy the all the major labels from their respective owners, if they wanted too. Especially EMI and WMG

Please read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/business/media/11warner.ht...

Warner music group is currently for sale and EMI is available if the right offer comes along.

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Re:Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry by taylorlb on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:16AM (#2453148)
Except that no one company could ever get approved by regulators in the US or EU to purchase ALL the major music companies. It would be extremely unlikely that Google would even get approved to purchase the two that are up for sale already.
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Re:Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry by gte910h on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @12:18PM (#2463061)
But google AND amazon could buy them all.
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