Comment Why would they BUY? That would be silly! (Score 1) 138
It would be just plain silly for Google to BUY napster and try to COMPETE with the other music services. That's not how be the master of the internet universe and all it's data.
To be the omnipresent magnificence that google really aspires to, it seems much smarter to partner with ALL of the music services. If I'm new to the world of buying music online and want to find "Like a Virgin", I google it, and it hooks me up with all of the services that carry it, and how much it'll cost me from each provider. Google can take a cut for connecting the searcher with provider.
Teaming with napster would be a great first step. Once everybody finds music via google and they're the all-pervasive hub, ONLY THEN they can buy all of the content and nobody will be able to stop them.