Record Label Demands From Amazon

Found on Techcrunch on Friday, 29 April 2011
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Dominating the discussions is the labels concern that personal cloud services will exacerbate piracy and erode their business even further.

All songs without a proof of purchase would be assumed to be unauthorized and not accepted into the system.

Sony wants loading to happen from only one computer. Each locker owner would have to designate a single location from which they could upload songs. Users could load music from either their laptop or desktop or office computer but not all three.

Locker owners would only be able to download their music files a single time if they claimed they were lost. All future downloads would be forbidden.

What WMG would like to see happen is that a central locker authority would administer all locker assignments.

I can only say it again and again: I want to see those big useless labels vanish sooner than later. Their broken and greedy business model does not work anymore and it's about time that they go down and leave it up to the artists to interact with their fans. It's a simple principle: remove the middle man.