Amazon's Cloud Drive Riles Music Industry

From PC World: On Monday night, Amazon announced a new cloud-based music service that lets people store their music in "the cloud" and access it from anywhere.

We've recently heard rumors that Google is testing (internally) a similar service, but has been running into legal troubles with--you guessed it--the recording industry. So how is it that Amazon managed to get permission from the major labels, while Google cannot?

The answer: it didn't.

And, well, the esteemed music industry isn't very happy about that. Reuters reports that Sony Music is just one of many labels annoyed with the online retailer's decision to launch its service without new licenses for music streaming.

"We hope that they'll reach a new license deal," Liz Young, a spokeswoman for Sony Music, told Reuters, "but we're keeping all of our legal options open."

Sony also told The Wall Street Journal that they are "disappointed that the locker service that Amazon is proposing is unlicensed by Sony Music."

So, the record companies are not exactly thrilled with Amazon's move. This should be no surprise to anyone, given the music industry's current position on any type of music sharing (plus, it looks like their request for $75 trillion from LimeWire isn't going to pan out, so they really do need the money).

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