Thread: Amazon Announces Cloud Player and Cloud Drive
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Old 03-29-2011, 02:47 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
I wonder how long it'll take until they get sued by the RIAA (Sony is already threatening). Other sites have tried this exact same thing in the past, and gotten sued into oblivion. Of course, in this case, Amazon actually has money to defend themselves.
Amazon is arguing that they are just storing your data, like Windows Live Drive, Dropbox, Box.net, and their own S3 service

MP3.com uploaded 75,000 CDs on their own, then let you access it providing you had the original CD as well. Other services like Lala.com had a combination of music you uploaded/they uploaded.

I don't know if anyone has tried the pure "you upload your music, we give you a player to play that music" approach yet. But doesn't Dropbox, SugarSync, etc. actually let you play music/watch movies from those drives?
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