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When you find out the reason that Amazon was able to beat Google Music and a cloud-based iTunes to market, you might be a bit surprised. See, those other services have been talked about for months upon months, with the main reason we haven’t seen them launched stemming from licensing issues between the companies wishing to instate cloud-based music services and record labels still sour over the demise of physical music sales. Amazon’s cloud music locker seemed to spring up out of no where, so what’s the deal? Turns out Amazon didn’t even bother to get the proper licensing before launching their service, and record labels, as you could imagine, aren’t all that happy about it.
In fact, Amazon didn’t even bother to get in touch with record labels until last week and decided to go ahead and launch their new service while terms of licensing were still being negotiated. It’s a bold move, one that may end up costing the retailer in the long run. A Sony Music spokesperson said, “We hope that they’ll reach a new license deal, but we’re keeping all of our legal options open.”
Perhaps some heat from the music industry and potentially being sued by the RIAA or individual record labels is a small price to pay to leapfrog Google and Apple, the two companies expected to dominate these area of digital media distribution.
[via Reuters]
And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
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And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
Oh, Phandroid is giving you an wasy way to offend me with this commenting system. I think they need to rethink this whole thing…
And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
Oh, Phandroid is giving you an wasy way to offend me with this commenting system. I think they need to rethink this whole thing…
And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
Oh, Phandroid is giving you an wasy way to offend me with this commenting system. I think they need to rethink this whole thing…
And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
Oh, Phandroid is giving you an wasy way to offend me with this commenting system. I think they need to rethink this whole thing…
And yet, it’s still easier to stab random people with a scissor or pencil. None of these are illegal, or require a license. Maybe you need to contact your buddies at the RIAA about that.
Oh, Phandroid is giving you an wasy way to offend me with this commenting system. I think they need to rethink this whole thing…
I just installed the AMAZON app store and #31 on top free apps is Free music download. Why isn’t the music industry mad about that.?
I just installed the AMAZON app store and #31 on top free apps is Free music download. Why isn’t the music industry mad about that.?
I just installed the AMAZON app store and #31 on top free apps is Free music download. Why isn’t the music industry mad about that.?
Screw the Music Industry and the RIAA… if I OWN it and want to play it on Whatever device I OWN also, using whatever delivery agent I prefer… who the hell are THEY to tell me what to do with it. It’s a long time coming that these jokers get shut down already! Can you imagine FORD Motor Co., or Toyota telling you that you can’t use a particular Gas supplier? Or a LCD TV Manufacturer suing to stop you from watching programming from a particular cable provider who hasn’t paid them off? ENOUGH!!! I don’t see to many starving artist’s who actually produce a product that actually sells. How about we investigate the artificial inflation of CD cost’s to consumers… and other questionable industry practices. Talk about killing innovation, the record labels and RIAA would have us still using 8 tracks… lmao.
Screw the Music Industry and the RIAA… if I OWN it and want to play it on Whatever device I OWN also, using whatever delivery agent I prefer… who the hell are THEY to tell me what to do with it. It’s a long time coming that these jokers get shut down already! Can you imagine FORD Motor Co., or Toyota telling you that you can’t use a particular Gas supplier? Or a LCD TV Manufacturer suing to stop you from watching programming from a particular cable provider who hasn’t paid them off? ENOUGH!!! I don’t see to many starving artist’s who actually produce a product that actually sells. How about we investigate the artificial inflation of CD cost’s to consumers… and other questionable industry practices. Talk about killing innovation, the record labels and RIAA would have us still using 8 tracks… lmao.
Screw the Music Industry and the RIAA… if I OWN it and want to play it on Whatever device I OWN also, using whatever delivery agent I prefer… who the hell are THEY to tell me what to do with it. It’s a long time coming that these jokers get shut down already! Can you imagine FORD Motor Co., or Toyota telling you that you can’t use a particular Gas supplier? Or a LCD TV Manufacturer suing to stop you from watching programming from a particular cable provider who hasn’t paid them off? ENOUGH!!! I don’t see to many starving artist’s who actually produce a product that actually sells. How about we investigate the artificial inflation of CD cost’s to consumers… and other questionable industry practices. Talk about killing innovation, the record labels and RIAA would have us still using 8 tracks… lmao.
It seems to me that amazon has already licensed the right to resell the MP3s. Who know what everybody is doing with them after the initial purchase. So what if they are storing them on the cloud. These files are more likely to be pirated via p2p or email attachments to friends. The “Cloud” is simply a storage choice medium for Amazon users. Just as you can place file ON the cloud, so also you can take them off. It is OUR freedom of choice the music industry wants to screw us out of. Also, Precious few are sharing their amazon account info and chances are they can detect simultaneous requests coming to different IP addresses. Fact is it seems many people simply do not believe the price of CDs or individual mp3 file are worth the asking price. The recording industry has to find a price point people are willing to pay to reduce the problem, but you’ll never get rid of it.
It seems to me that amazon has already licensed the right to resell the MP3s. Who know what everybody is doing with them after the initial purchase. So what if they are storing them on the cloud. These files are more likely to be pirated via p2p or email attachments to friends. The “Cloud” is simply a storage choice medium for Amazon users. Just as you can place file ON the cloud, so also you can take them off. It is OUR freedom of choice the music industry wants to screw us out of. Also, Precious few are sharing their amazon account info and chances are they can detect simultaneous requests coming to different IP addresses. Fact is it seems many people simply do not believe the price of CDs or individual mp3 file are worth the asking price. The recording industry has to find a price point people are willing to pay to reduce the problem, but you’ll never get rid of it.
It seems to me that amazon has already licensed the right to resell the MP3s. Who know what everybody is doing with them after the initial purchase. So what if they are storing them on the cloud. These files are more likely to be pirated via p2p or email attachments to friends. The “Cloud” is simply a storage choice medium for Amazon users. Just as you can place file ON the cloud, so also you can take them off. It is OUR freedom of choice the music industry wants to screw us out of. Also, Precious few are sharing their amazon account info and chances are they can detect simultaneous requests coming to different IP addresses. Fact is it seems many people simply do not believe the price of CDs or individual mp3 file are worth the asking price. The recording industry has to find a price point people are willing to pay to reduce the problem, but you’ll never get rid of it.
It seems to me that amazon has already licensed the right to resell the MP3s. Who know what everybody is doing with them after the initial purchase. So what if they are storing them on the cloud. These files are more likely to be pirated via p2p or email attachments to friends. The “Cloud” is simply a storage choice medium for Amazon users. Just as you can place file ON the cloud, so also you can take them off. It is OUR freedom of choice the music industry wants to screw us out of. Also, Precious few are sharing their amazon account info and chances are they can detect simultaneous requests coming to different IP addresses. Fact is it seems many people simply do not believe the price of CDs or individual mp3 file are worth the asking price. The recording industry has to find a price point people are willing to pay to reduce the problem, but you’ll never get rid of it.
I dunno about anyone else, but wouldn’t this make you MORE likely to PURCHASE the music rather than using something like Music Junk and ZumoDrive?
I dunno about anyone else, but wouldn’t this make you MORE likely to PURCHASE the music rather than using something like Music Junk and ZumoDrive?
I dunno about anyone else, but wouldn’t this make you MORE likely to PURCHASE the music rather than using something like Music Junk and ZumoDrive?
I dunno about anyone else, but wouldn’t this make you MORE likely to PURCHASE the music rather than using something like Music Junk and ZumoDrive?