Computer worlds piece by Gregg Keizer entitled, Amazon, Apple, Google play 'chicken' over cloud music lockers. Show's just how competitive control of the online music and storage industry is beginning to get. He posting out that Amazon may have beat rivals google and apple to the punch Tuesday with it's Launch, however they appear perfectly happy to let amazon take the lead and the heat from the music industry and the legal battles that may ensue.
Quoting Aram Sinnreich, a media professor at Rutgers University, who says, "There was a game of chicken going on. These are uncharted waters and really a gray area legally. Personally, I think that the basic locker storage space should not require a license from the record labels, but they'll probably disagree."
Tuesdays release by Amazon of it's Cloud Drive, an online service that provides 5GB of free storage for music, video and other files. After users upload their tunes they can stream the music to smart phones or to a broswer running Windows or Mac OS X.
Amazon's release without permission form recording labels didn't set well with Sony Music.
Ed.. Personally I think the reason that the Music labels are hacked off, is that they themselves would like to be the ones storing and streaming your TUNES so you never REALLY obtain a FILE you own. You just get to pay for it to STREAM to you. There in costing you ISP data fee's for you Phone, Computer or TV. This has LONG been the model that the Recording Industry as well as the Motion Picture industry has backed. A PAY TO PLAY or VIEW concept.
Not something this computer user would ever be interested in doing. If I buy something I want to OWN IT.
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