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As described by the online retailer: "Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon's secure servers. All you need is a web browser to upload, download, and access your files from any computer." Users are given 5GB of free online storage -- enough space to store up to 1000 songs -- and new purchases from the Amazon MP3 store are stored for free and do not count toward customers' storage quota.
The free storage offering is upgradeable to 20GB with the purchase of any Amazon MP3 album, while Amazon also offers a number of paid storage options from 20GB up to 1TB at $1 per gigabyte.
The other component of Amazon's newest venture is Cloud Player, which will allow customers to search, organize, and play their music files from any computer running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari for Mac, or Chrome. The player itself is intuitive and quick to load while the companion Android app lets you access your music on the go.
For now the service is available to U.S. customers only and it seems Amazon has gone ahead without all the labels' approval. In their view, the functionality of saving MP3s to Cloud Drive is the same as if a customer were to save their music to an external hard drive and thus no additional licensing is needed -- which sounds about right. Some music executives disagree, of course, but Amazon still decided to flip the switch and leave those pesky details for later.
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Securely stored eh? Upload all your pirated mp3's linked to you and you will be ok? Hummmm I see some lawsuits in the future.
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I don't really see the need for this type of service. Maybe this combined with a service like Rhapsody would be cool. But for now this is just a fancy drop box. Sure you can stream MP3's but a safer way would be to stream directly from your computer unless your sure every MP3 you upload is legally bought. I like Rhapsody but it could be better. If someone could build on what Rhapsody has but do it better they would be #1. Buying Mp3's is so last year. Sure throw away your $1+ per song while people with Rhapsody can enjoy every song for $10 a month. Access to any song for a flat rate monthly will win in the end.
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Get a 69 cent album and you get 20GB free storage for a year. Not a bad deal!
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They cant tell whether an MP3 was illegally downloaded or not. With WMAs, they had licenses, but not with MP3s.
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Yay! More ways for me to spied upon!
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Guest said:
Get a 69 cent album and you get 20GB free storage for a year. Not a bad deal!
20GB for a YEAR only...
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