I was excited to hear about Google Music this morning. I tried to be excited about Amazon's Cloud Player, but the uploader crashed repeatedly and I finally gave up. Google is usually pretty good about making the uploading process fairly seamless.

But Gizmodo says that Google has some plans that make the service look a lot less appealing to lots of folks:

Word from Google IO is that Google Music will delete user MP3s, if the copyright holder has a legitimate claim against their music being on the server. And it will use the same backend tech to do so as YouTube...For end users, this means that album/song leaks and pirated music will not be tolerated.

The window for legally acquired music is actually pretty narrow. It'll be interesting to see how tough Google will be on this issue, and how people will feel about having private files deleted from their private accounts. Gizmodo likens it to deleting YouTube videos, but I think, since this service isn't intended for sharing with the public, it may feel more to users like deleting personal e-mails.