The day after the launch of its Cloud Drive, a system that allows users to store music online and listen anywhere, Amazon has incurred the wrath of the record label Sony. "We hope they will get a release agreement, but we examine all possible legal remedies," said a spokesman for Sony. With its music service, Amazon has overtaken other Web giants like Apple and Google, which plans to offer similar services.
According to the American press, it is mainly the issue of copyright has slowed competing projects that of Amazon. But Amazon has taken a diametrically opposite position, and not negotiate any licensing agreement with record companies. The company says it does not offer a streaming music service, or as Deezer Spotify, but simply a storage space online, with a feature MP3 playback.
It therefore considers that there is no reason why it should negotiate agreements with record companies. "Save an MP3 on the Cloud drive is exactly the same thing to save an MP3 on a USB key," detailed a spokesman for Amazon at Ars Technica. Amazon is not the first company to offer such a service.
MP3tunes offers a close for many years, but the site is also undergoing legal battle against EMI. The record company had filed a complaint against MP3Tunes in 2007, saying it was an illegal use of music. "Record companies have embarked on a campaign of legal intimidation over the past decade, to slow the progress of technology," said Michael Robertson, creator of MP3Tunes, interviewed by Reuters on the reaction Sony. 
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According to the American press, it is mainly the issue of copyright has slowed competing projects that of Amazon. But Amazon has taken a diametrically opposite position, and not negotiate any licensing agreement with record companies. The company says it does not offer a streaming music service, or as Deezer Spotify, but simply a storage space online, with a feature MP3 playback.
It therefore considers that there is no reason why it should negotiate agreements with record companies. "Save an MP3 on the Cloud drive is exactly the same thing to save an MP3 on a USB key," detailed a spokesman for Amazon at Ars Technica. Amazon is not the first company to offer such a service.
MP3tunes offers a close for many years, but the site is also undergoing legal battle against EMI. The record company had filed a complaint against MP3Tunes in 2007, saying it was an illegal use of music. "Record companies have embarked on a campaign of legal intimidation over the past decade, to slow the progress of technology," said Michael Robertson, creator of MP3Tunes, interviewed by Reuters on the reaction Sony.
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