MP3Tunes – an online music locker service – has been put to the wall by a dozen of record companies. The Federal’s Court mixed decision rules that cloud-based music services are not to host copies of a song if they can match and verify that users have legitimate copies of the same song on their computers. This should be very good news to the newcomers into cloud-based services Google and Amazon. Ryan Singel reports on Wired that the ruling could boost cloud music services as it improves their bandwidth.

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A Mix of File-Sharing Fiascos