# Amazon Cloud Music Player--Were they sued?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 5, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-cloud-music-player-were-they-sued/657578 "2013-05-05T22:49:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-cloud-music-player-were-they-sued/657578/1 "2013-05-05T22:49:42Z")

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When Amazon’s Cloud music player came out, record lables were saying Amazon needed licenses it didn’t have. But all the links I can find relevant to this topic come from two years ago when the service was launched. Has nothing happened since then? Did no labels go after them or their users?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-cloud-music-player-were-they-sued/657578/2 "2013-05-06T02:39:15Z")

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Looks like this set a precedent that prevented ACMP from getting sued:

> **[Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision](https://www.wired.com/2011/08/cloudmusic-is-not-a-crime/)**
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> A federal court ruling in a copyright case filed by EMI against an online music locker makes it clear that online music services -- or at least some of them -- are not illegal, opening the door for Google and Amazon to expand their offerings.