Why Hollywood isn't afraid of Amazon's cloud
Amazon's new cloud service has generated a lot less angst in Hollywood than it has at the major music labels.
On Monday evening, Amazon announced the Cloud Drive, which enables users to upload e-books, songs, films, and any other digital media to Amazon's servers. Users can then access their content from any Web-connected devices. Among the major Internet companies delivering digital entertainment, Amazon is first to make good on the promise of ubiquitous access to content.
Amazon gave very little notice to the major film studios or record labels that it planned to handle their content this way, … Read more