What’s up webfolk? The last time I wrote for the music blog I was talking about streaming all your music from the cloud and as it turns out this is becoming quite a big deal in the legal arena. As it stands right now all three of the major players are taking different legal approaches to establishing their music locker service in the cloud. Those three players are Amazon, Apple and Google and as you would guess just based on those brand names there is alot at stake here and each one of them have probably got a large team of lawyers backing them up.
The question posed by this article over at Ars technica really puts the legal strategy being taken by Google and Amazon into question because unlike Apple’s strategy both of these companies have opened up their music in cloud services with out the licsensing approval from the music industry big wigs. Where as Apple is doing it’s due diligence so to speak in getting the approval and paying for the rights to put the music into their service called the iCloud. The post is very thourough in pointing out what is at stake here obviously but also give you some good history on the idea of the music locker and it’s origins. It makes for a very interesting read for those of you that may be interested in some of the back story of getting your music up into the clouds.
I personally don’t get what all the fuss is about anyway since pretty much all the music I could ever want to listen to is already streaming on the web on sites like Last.fm, Qriocity and Pandora. Seriously I could do a search for pretty much any type of music that I feel like listening to on any given day and I can pretty much guarantee that one of those services will have what I am looking for. Also those are not the only music sites on the web either, I just mention three of the most popular or at least the most popular ones to me.
What are your thoughts on all this talk about putting your music in the cloud? Do you see this type of service really taking off as a thing that people are going to use on a daily basis? I honestly don’t see it becoming a big thing like those companies are hoping that it will for the simple fact that the streaming music from anywhere genie is already out of the bottle so to speak because of those other services that I just mentioned. So will you putting your music collection up in the cloud be a thing you do in the future? Leave your interesting thoughts in the comments section down below.
Until next time kudos to you peruser 
Dave
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