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5GB Free, 20GB free if you buy an album.

Allows you to play/stream the music anywhere you can get a net connection via web or Android player.

I am intrigued.
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And in reading about this, I discovered http://www.subsonic.org , which allows you to do the same thing but on servers in your control.

I don't see amazon getting enough legal flack for this to actually yank the service (as what happened to mp3.com), but still.

I also think winamp.com may have some sort of "winamp remote" that allows you to do this, but I haven't looked at it yet.




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There should be no legal flack. What happened to mp3.com is they made their own copies of music, and all you had to do was "prove" you owned the CD by sticking a CD in your machine, then they would let you have access.

Amazon actually requires you to upload your own songs. So they are just storage.

Lots of things let me stream from my house. My house has 512kbps total upstream bandwidth. Give me a real fucking internet, and maybe I'll consider it.
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I've considered setting up/writing a secure service from the home laptop that allows me to play/stream my music from elsewhere.
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Record industries: You need licensing for that.

Amazon: No we don't.

http://arstechnica.com/media....ses.ars
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I 100% agree with Amazon, and hope to hell they win.
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LOL
Amazon seems to insist that since users are uploading and playing back their own music, the original download licenses still apply and no new licenses are necessary—a seemingly logical conclusion that the record industry disagrees with.


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I'm sure they knew this was coming.
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http://www.govtech.com/technology/Amazon-Consumer-Cloud-033011.html
Amazon Cloud Drive is already riling up the music and film industries. FoxNews reported that “Music companies and Hollywood studios ripped CEO Jeff Bezos’ plan for Amazon’s cloud-based streaming service. ‘It sounds like legalized murder to me,’ said one senior music veteran, adding that legal action was being considered.”
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I think that entire side of the music industry could be an anti-drugs poster.
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I bet the sheet music companies bitched just as loudly when the phonograph made audio recordings possible. "We put that note on paper, that sound is ours, damnit."



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