Amazon Releases Cloud-Based Music Service

c0lo writes "Right after rumors that Google was preparing to take on iTunes service with a digital music store of its own, Amazon has announced that it's entering the fight with a cloud-based music service of its own. From the article: 'Amazon Cloud Drive is a "personal disk drive in the cloud," while Amazon Cloud Player is, well, a Web-based music player. That's right--Amazon Cloud Drive will be something like Google's rumored digital music locker, a cloud-based storage system for all of your tunes.'"

Clouds and overages

[dicobalt]

I prefer my clouds to be in the sky. I also prefer not to go over my 250GB monthly cap.

Re:It's cloud-based alright

[adamchou]

That link has nothing to do with copyright law and I don't even see how that case is at all relevant to Amazon's or Google's service. On top of that, Amazon isn't providing a music sharing service. Its a web based storage service that only you access.

As for the lawyers, I HIGHLY doubt that any of the RIAA members have the financial balls to take on either Amazon or Google. Besides, if they go after either of the two companies, both companies have the financial means to pursue the case, most likely win the case, and set precedent that would bar the RIAA from ever pulling crap like that again. So I HOPE that the RIAA decides to try to sue.

Amazon remotely wiped 1984 from peoples' kindles

[Scrameustache]

Why should you trust them to keep your things?

No thanks, I'm stuffed.

[JudgeFurious]

I have been gorging on free music for more than a decade now. From day one I've been paritcularly picky about what I bothered to download and keep so I never wasted my time on 128kbps mp3's. Space wasn't an issue for me so I went straight to the 320's and then on to FLAC. In short I now own very good copies of every bit of music I could ever want to hear. The key word is "Discography". Sure new music is released all the time but I buy very little of it these days. I find most new music to be either shit or simply not appealing. Music services and/or labels have very little to sell me. I already have what I've wanted from the beginning. Files to do with as I please and backups of those files just in case. I have something like 36 straight days of music on my hard drive now. I don't want anymore music. Really, I couldn't eat another bite but thanks for asking.