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Tech heavyweights set to move music to the cloud

By Macgregor Campbell

1 September 2010

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I’m moving on

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FROM the sagging shelf of vinyl, through teetering stacks of CDs to a hard drive stuffed with MP3s, personal music collections have adapted to, even thrived on, the technological changes of the last few decades. But actually owning music could soon become a thing of the past – because of the cloud.

Cloud music services, which enable you to stream music from the internet to your computer or phone, have been around for a few years. But so far, services such as Pandora, Last FM and Spotify, have had little discernible effect on music lovers’…

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