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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by BennyMcBenBen on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:31AM (#5037844)
This is great, but how did Amazon manage to pull this off? Are we effectively buying three products when we buy an AutoRip CD? (1) The physical CD, (2) The streaming rights for Amazon cloud player, (3) The MP3s which you can download from the cloud player. Is this a legal way to purchase a CD and gift it to a friend or resell it and still maintain the streaming/MP3 rights? Or does the RIAA have a problem with that?

Shrink-wrapped CDs I have gifted friends and family years ago are now showing up in my cloud player. I have to admit that feels a little weird. How is that different than if I opened the CD and burned it before gifting it?

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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by wmf on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:45AM (#5037951)
Yeah, basically Amazon is paying the man for both the CD and MP3 when you buy a CD. I'm a little surprised this isn't Prime-only.
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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by khuey on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:26PM (#5038287)
I wonder how few CDs sell these days.
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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by earbitscom on Thursday January 10, 2013 @01:05PM (#5038566)
It still dwarfs all other formats and revenue streams for recorded music.
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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by portman on Thursday January 10, 2013 @04:23PM (#5039833)
Source? I thought MP3 surpassed CD over a year ago...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/digital-music-...

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Re:Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free by FredFredrickson on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:41PM (#5038416)
I don't know how they pulled it off, but I like that they did. Things like this make the music industry more flexible over time, and is only better for us consumers.

I agree though - I had the same thing happen to me when I logged in today (some music that I bought for others on CD is now "mine" in my cloud library). I also got a bunch more stuff that I had bought for myself though, so overall, I'm happy with it.

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