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# Pirate Bay’s Sunde On iTunes Match, Spotify & Cloud Music: ‘We’re Giving Up Control Of Our Music’
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/pirate-bays-sunde-on-itunes-match-spotify-cloud-music-were-giving-up-control-of-our-music/
- Published: 2011-06-13T09:42:53.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-13T09:42:53.000Z
- Description: Most of the debate around iTunes Match is whether or not the new service legitimizes pirated music. But Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde warns that eager music fans are missing. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/06/pirate-bays-sunde-on-itunes-match-spotify-cloud-music-were-givi
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Most of the debate around **iTunes Match** is whether or not the new service legitimizes pirated music. But **Pirate Bay** co-founder **Peter Sunde** warns that eager music fans are missing a huge downside to iTunes Match and other cloud music services. It doesn’t make sense to pay **Apple**, with its closed source system, $25 to have access to music you’ve already downloaded, according to Sunde. Fans could be **ceding the future of sharing music** to Apple..

When users put music in the **iCloud**, for example, Apple now controls it. “They might say, you can’t do that, so you have to remove it…they \[could\] also decide which music you can’t have. That’s what you’re allowing in the future.”

Sunde doesn't single out **iTunes**, however, but fears the end result of **Spotify** and all music streaming and music in the cloud services. “In the end if people are dependent enough on the services, there will be no more copies \[on their local hard drives\],” he told [Forbes](http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/06/08/why-copyright-holders-love-itunes-match-and-pirates-hate-it/?ref=hypebot.com).

**Mike Masnick** of [Techdirt](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/20462814628/wait-do-copyright-holders-love-hate-itunes-music-match.shtml?ref=hypebot.com) agrees: "Almost all of the features Apple offers I already have set up through alternative means. And I'm not clear why I should pay Apple $25/year to gain access to the music I already paid for."