The Cloud

Finally, a big company has gotten their act together and created a cloud service for music and videos. The concern, I suppose, is over licensing and copyright issues, but Amazon doesn't seem to be concerned about this:

"Cloud Player is an application that lets customers manage and play their own music. It's like any number of existing media management applications. We do not need a license to make Cloud Player available."

A number of commenters have pointed out that several companies (mp3.com) tried this several years ago and were stopped in the courts. Amazon's strategy seems to be, "we're Amazon. We sell a lot of your shit, and this cloud will help us sell even more, so you'd better get on board before you miss out on your profits."