"How very selfish of you to keep all of your listening metadata to yourself instead of sharing. What are you trying to hide? And how entitled are you to think that you should be able to play a track without getting permission each time from the publisher's server after giving it (and a few middlemen along the way) your entire demographic profile, a small DNA sample, and maybe opt-in to a monthly fee for a continued listening privilege?"

-- anonymous big music publisher

"Owned" music and offline listening seems to be dying a slow death. In some ways it represents consumer preference -- the vast majority of current music available from any device for the same price as one new album per month is too tempting for most. I do wonder if the days of being able to actually purchase music and movies for a one-time fee will come to an end. Piracy is probably the only force keeping that from already happening with music and physical movie sales in decline.

Groove's startup is also instant.