Digital music storage service from Amazon just launched, and dragging angry reactions of American record companies
Battle for digital music starts again. This is not the first war in which record companies are trying to maintain their status in light of technological developments, but unlike previous wars who stood in front of them is not a small company of idealistic students that if a huge company - the largest online store, and one of the leading storage services, Amazon. Win it will be harder by Napster, Kazaa or BitTorrent sites. The move which was the opening salvo battle is launched Amazon Cloud Player - Amazon's new service, online storage space at its base that gives the company to each user. Instead just use a portable hard Achabachonne, users can also raise the drive to play the music through the built-flyer is also available to web browsers and Android operating system. So, theoretically, you can upload all your music library to the Internet, not just access it from anywhere but also be sure that she will not disappear when the drive is your hard drive will go away. On the surface, according to Amazon, this is equivalent regular hard drive, so that in the computer Shlnup only this time it is in the network. That's why record companies were not involved in launching this service, and receive from him a penny. But the U.S. legal situation complicated enough so the companies could argue it is actually a music streaming service - a type of Internet radio requires payment of royalties and obtaining a franchise. Yes, even if all the music that you are streaming is really your only player available to you. "We hope they will reach new agreements," Reuters news agency said Liz Young, a spokeswoman for Sony's music division, "but we reserve all our legal options open." According to a Reuters report, Amazon is currently in negotiations regarding the amendment of the license, but It started just after launching the service, which means that the company is sure enough positions to not be afraid to launch, and now trying to talk to the studios a position of strength. As rumors suggests that Google and Apple are expected to enter this very coming months, probably soon see the United States and European Court required the legal issue of storage services that allow streaming content. 
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