This cannot be used without a government ID card in some countries:

- You require a Google account to use it.

- To create a Google account, the user needs a phone number.

- SIM cards are in some countries only allowed to be sold if you show your ID card. Landline phones require a bank account, and those also require an ID.

Now, call me old fashioned, but even considering that I have nothing to hide about my music taste, I am appalled at needing government approval to search for music :)

And yes, I know I am a party pooper here, but this pattern has already creeped all over all Internet services, so at which point in time should we start to point it out everywhere if not now?

Anyway, to be constructive: If you want me to be human I will happily solve dozens of captchas or have my CPU run hot for a while to generate hashcash :) No need to involve daddy Google.