Perspective
Apr. 12, 2011
Is Amazon’s Head in the Clouds?
Amazon's failure to obtain music licenses before releasing its new technology is risky. By Nick Solish.
What's a billion dollars between friends? Quite a bit, when it comes to the potential revenues from Amazon's new Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services. These services allow customers to upload music files to private, user-specific online drives (the Cloud Drive) and then listen to these files remotely using the Cloud Player. Amazon has encountered harsh criticism from major record labels for releasing both services without first obtaining m...
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