Amazon's headquarters in the cloud (week in review)-CNET

Amazon.com beat Apple and Google in the race to the cloud, but along the way in which it can also have jumped the gun a little.

Amazon launched a much-awaited digital locker music service where users store their music on the Internet and then listen to their collections on computers with a Web browser or on Android devices. Consumers can save their digital songs, videos, photographs, documents, and music. In addition, Amazon also rolled out Cloud Player that provides the ability to play the songs they transferred to Cloud drives.

But what the company was not licence rights to do this from major Hollywood film studios and top record companies. Certainly, many from movies and music camps believe that Amazon's new service without obtaining the appropriate permission, violates their legal rights, several sources from the sector entertainment told CNET.
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