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This article mentions a Google product in development that would "scan a user's computer and automatically add any tracks that Google has licensed to that user'
by mrspandex 16y ago
This article mentions a Google product in development that would "scan a user's computer and automatically add any tracks that Google has licensed to that user's online locker" and an Apple product that would allow "unlimited music redownloads and streams to iOS devices" and then implies that since these would require licenses, so would Amazon.
I think there's a fine line that's crossed when you have to upload your own bits rather than re-use their bits.
- jameshart 16y agoThe line gets even finer when you take an MD5 of your bits, look it up in a set of MD5s of bits they already have, and they say 'we already have those bits. No point wasting network capacity shipping them to us'...
- Pahalial 16y agoS3 explicitly does no deduplication at all, last I heard. This is somewhat corroborated by the pricing for cloud player - it would be a lot lower per GB if they did.
- trotsky 16y agoS3 doesn't do de-duplication, but many platforms that work on top of it do. The pricing for Cloud Drive is lower than native S3, and they don't charge for transfers - so IMO they are doing dedupes. It'd be kind of crazy not to with a consumer service where the point is to hold a lot of duplicate data.