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Uploading your music to Dropbox would be a good example. As far as I know nothing stops me doing that, and it achieves a fairly similar functionality to the pr
by stoney 16y ago
Uploading your music to Dropbox would be a good example. As far as I know nothing stops me doing that, and it achieves a fairly similar functionality to the proposed Amazon service. Dropbox even use Amazon's servers to store their data (I believe).
- nl 16y agoThere is actually a (minor) difference. Amazon really is streaming the MP3s, while if you play one from Dropbox it downloads and plays and plays (technically it could be played while downloading, but this is actually uncommon). There are slight technical differences - in streaming MP3s there is metadata embedded inside the files - see, for eg the second part of http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/03/18/random-mp3-metadata-code/ http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/03/18/random-mp3-metadata-c... Exactly why this would make a difference for licencing purposes I'm not sure, but I would note that there is a special "streaming" licence.
- arthurschreiber 16y agoThe Dropbox client for iPhone also "streams" MP3s, as far as I can tell. (Streaming as in playing while downloading)