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Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011
Amazon's new Cloud Player service allows users 5 gigs of cloud storage for their personal music files, so they can listen to them anywhere they have internet access. Apparently the music labels really don't like this. One example:
It's time to play "What crosses the line?" with an imaginary music label lawyer: "If I buy an MP3, can I store it on my internal hard drive?" Of course. "If I buy an MP3, can I store it on an external hard drive?" Naturally. "Can I copy my purchased music on to my portable music player?" Yes. Your license is not restricted to a single playback device. "Can I store my purchased music on my home fileserver and play it on various devices I own?" Yup. "Can I store my purchased music on a remote fileserver and play it on various devices I own?" Woah! That sounds like streaming! "But this is music I bought license to and own. I can already play them as much as I want. Why should it matter how long the cord is?" Streaming is bad! Must pay license fees for streaming! "Even if the service is provided by a company with a vested interest in combating piracy?" ESPECIALLY if it's provided by a company with lots of money. That's what you asked, right? sigh... When we buy music, what are we buying again? Either I keep forgetting or it keeps changing. If you like it, please share it.
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Hi, I'm Kevin Fox. I also have a resume. electricimp
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I've led design at Mozilla Labs, designed Gmail 1.0, Google Reader 2.0, FriendFeed, and a few special projects at Facebook. ©2012 Kevin Fox |