I don't get it. If the users purchase their music, say a CD, under a label that Google didn't make good with, can the user still store his music on the Google cloud? Does this only apply to buying music from their e-store, or does it restrict what you can store there? What happens if you miss payment? Does your music collection get deleted? If the "cloud" determines that one of your songs is not within "legal" rights, and I don't mean pirated, but more like Google didn't grease the right pocket, does it get deleted without warning?
And you can buy 1TB portable hardrives for $50, paying only once, versus the $1 per GB per year pricing model stated in the article. That equates to a nickel per GB and you get to keep the device. Now granted, this may be inconvenient, but almost everything that can play music nowadays is starting to come with a USB port or you can at least find an equivalent device that does. So just centralize your collection on a USB stick in a DRM free way and you're set. No worries about some sort of remote control big brotherish overseer to "consolidate" your collection for you.