Licensing Proving Troublesome For Cloud-Based iTunes?

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When digital music downloading was first made available through illegall venues like Napster, it was a godsend. Prior to these times people had never experienced what it had felt like to acquire music quickly and efficiently from the comfort of the own home. Sure, some users were slapped with some hefty lawsuits and the service saw its demise only to be reopened later as a legal service but there’s no question about it: Napster dropped us into the high paced digital downloading society that we’ve come to know and love today.

Back then, downloading MP3s was a perfectly fine alternative to buying physical CDs. Like I said about it was face, efficient and above all, easy. However, not a days with so many devices all featuring their own storage drives, keeping everything in sync ash proven itself to be a bit troublesome. Lucky for us cloud based music services like Pandora and LaLa have emerged to give us on-the-go music consuming folk easy way to consume our music.

While Napster rules the airwaves back in the day, Apple’s iTunes has enjoyed the top spot in terms of virtual music sales for quite some time now. This can largely be attributed to the fact that Apple’s entire lineup of iDevices (iPad, iPod, iPhone) feature out of the box compatibility with iTunes.

If you’ll remember, not too long ago we let you in on some rumors that after acquiring streaming music website LaLa, Apple would go on to create a cloud-based iTunes. This would allow users to not only stream songs (for a price, presumably) but also sync up their entire line of devices wirelessly making it much less of a hassle.

Well, while this rmor hsa yet to be confirmed we have some additional information regarding its release. Apparantly, the reason we have yet to see a cloud-based iTunes is due to some licensing issues that have come up between Apple and those who own the music.

Let’s hope they get this sorted out soon as syncing by iPod’s music library over WiFi would be quite useful. What are your views on the matter? Would you use a cloud-based iTunes? Let us know.