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karunaji · 03-30-2011, 11:13 AM

Licensing requirements for what is essentially a private hosting services is nonsense. However, it hasn't stopped media moguls to collect a piracy tax on blank media (blank CDs, flash memory, even hard drives) in some countries. It is expected that they will attempt to get some money from Amazon Cloud service as well and I wouldn't be so sure that Amazon can shrug it all off. That's probably why they have opened this service to US customers only.

03-30-2011, 11:13 AM	#65
karunaji Evangelist Posts: 421 Karma: 1033566 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Latvia Device: Kindle 3 Wifi, Bookeen Opus	Licensing requirements for what is essentially a private hosting services is nonsense. However, it hasn't stopped media moguls to collect a piracy tax on blank media (blank CDs, flash memory, even hard drives) in some countries. It is expected that they will attempt to get some money from Amazon Cloud service as well and I wouldn't be so sure that Amazon can shrug it all off. That's probably why they have opened this service to US customers only. Last edited by karunaji; 03-30-2011 at 11:16 AM.