Capitol Records, LLC v. Redigi Inc.

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FILING ERROR - DEFICIENT DOCKET ENTRY - DECLARATION of John Ossenmacher in Opposition re: 8 MOTION for Preliminary Injunction Order to Show Cause. Document filed by Redigi Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C)(Rogers, Morlan) Modified on 1/27/2012 (ldi).

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Exhibit A iTunes Match vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive 1 of 4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/itunes-match-google-music-a... EDITION: U.S. CA Canada FR France US United States UK United Kingdom January 24, 2012 Like 44K CONNECT Search the Huffington Po By RYAN NAKASHIMA 11/28/11 01:51 PM ET Associated Press React LOS ANGELES -- In recent weeks, Apple, Google and Amazon.com have each launched the missing puzzle piece in their wireless mobile music systems. Apple enabled storage and delivery of your songs over the Internet through iTunes Match. Google started selling music digitally. Amazon shipped an electronic-books device, called the Kindle Fire, that does much more than books. With those additions, each system now lets you buy songs, store them on faraway computers called the cloud and retrieve them wirelessly on devices connected to the Internet. But which system do you want to live with? It's a choice you can't make lightly because these companies don't play nice with each other. Once you've adopted one, it's hard to switch. If this were the Music Cloud Wars, then Apple's iTunes Match would be winning – but not by much. Here's a quick primer, along with a few ways to get in and around their digital barriers. ___ iTunes Match. There's a good chance you are familiar with iTunes. The software is on millions of computers, and many of you have iPods, iPhones or iPads that let you consume content bought through the iTunes online store. 1/24/2012 11:27 AM iTunes Match vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive 2 of 4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/itunes-match-google-music-a... Sponsored Links RBCC - Breakout Gains! The Most Promising Biotech Company Could Make You Extremely Wealthy! www.BestMicroCapStock.com Hot Mobile App Stock OMVS Bikini Model Contest Promo Trailer Means Prices Are Going Up, Buy Now! www.TopMicroCapStock.com Blood Sugar Shocker This seemingly harmless substance is ruining our health. Learn how to protect yourself today. www.Gluco-Secure.com Buy a link here ITunes Match is a $25-a-year service on top of that. It sees everything you have in iTunes and matches it to copies Apple already has stored in the cloud. Songs not already there will be uploaded from your computer to a personal locker in the cloud. It's alone among the three to let you download songs to iPhones and iPads wirelessly. That means a full copy of the song is stored for listening anytime, rather than streamed on demand over wireless networks, which can be spotty. There's nothing more annoying than having your songs stop and start as your connection flutters. You can have up to 25,000 songs on the service, plus an unlimited number bought through iTunes – great for those with large music collections. Of course, most of you won't fit 25,000 songs on your device, so streaming is an option for songs you haven't downloaded yet. If there's a tune you want to listen to offline, just tap an icon. It takes only a few seconds, and you can start listening before it's done. One major caveat: You need an Apple device to use this, and specifically a newer one with Apple's iOS 5 mobile software. You're out of luck if you have a phone running Google's Android system, for instance. ___ Google Music. Using Google's free Music Manager program, you upload music you own into Google's cloud. Unlike Apple, Google doesn't have songs preloaded, so this can take hours or days. Google Music works best with an Android phone or tablet computer. You simply download the Google Music app to your device. Voila, your songs will be available for streaming. You can save songs for offline playback by "pinning" them with a digital push pin icon. The service stores up to 20,000 songs, not including those bought through a companion music store run by Google. That's not as many as iTunes Match, but it's free. I like Google's music store because it offers plenty of bargains. I found Coldplay's latest album, Mylo Xyloto, for $5 – half the price on iTunes. Google plans to release lots of free music, too. I also like that if you buy from Google's music store, you can share the songs with friends on its Google Plus social network. They get one full listen for free – that's something not available anywhere else. One downside: Google's store isn't as extensive as Apple's or Amazon's. For instance, it's missing songs from Warner Music Group, which accounts for about 20 percent of music sold in the U.S. Google Music also isn't a great option for users of Apple devices. Google found a way to make the system work on iPhones and iPads through Apple's Safari Web browser. It has a surprising app-like feel because of the way menus respond to touch. But you won't be able to store songs on your phone for offline use. There's also a trick for Apple users to take advantage of music deals: Download the songs onto a computer, put the music in iTunes and upload the songs into Apple's cloud through iTunes Match. It's not pretty, but it works. ___ Amazon Cloud Drive. The new Kindle Fire completed Amazon's music system, though it's not required. It works fine on Android devices through the Amazon MP3 app. 1/24/2012 11:27 AM iTunes Match vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive 3 of 4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/itunes-match-google-music-a... Released in March, Amazon's cloud storage system is free for up to 5 gigabytes of storage – roughly 1,250 songs. If you bought Lady Gaga's latest album, "Born This Way," in a 99-cent promotion in May, you'll have 20 GB of space – good for about 5,000 songs. Amazon's uploader works about the same as Google's. It could take hours or days to get your songs into the cloud. But once there, you can stream or download songs to the Kindle Fire or to Android devices. Like Google, Amazon sells songs and albums at a discount to iTunes, and its long-running music store has a selection comparable to iTunes. Amazon has also found a way to make its system work on Apple devices, using Safari as well, but that workaround is clunkier than Google's and doesn't support downloads either. One other downside to Amazon's service is that you'll likely have to pay for cloud storage, as you do with iTunes Match. Having 5 GB of storage for free is kind of meaningless because most mobile devices have that already. The Kindle Fire comes with 8 GB on board. For a limited time, you can get 20 GB of storage for $20 a year – and most music files won't count against the total. ___ Although there are things to like about Google's and Amazon's systems, they both favor streaming, which isn't how I want to listen to music when I'm not at a computer. Apple's iTunes Match is fundamentally more oriented to work with downloading in mind, and it meshes well with your existing song library, either on your device or on your computer. The iTunes store is also set up better – showing what's new and popular, and acting as a barometer of popular culture. Google promotes what's free and Amazon emphasizes its bargains, but those picks aren't always what I'm looking for. Ultimately it's great to have cloud services out there. It has helped me organize my music collection and reconnected me with songs stuck in the recesses of my computer. In the end, though, these services ought to be as free and easy to access over multiple devices as email is. Instead, they come across as tools to get you to buy this or that device. And we shouldn't be made to pay for a song once and then again when we store it. Music in the cloud has promise, but it hasn't fully delivered just yet. FOLLOW HUFFPOST TECH ON Facebook: Like 44K Twitter: 1/24/2012 11:27 AM With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers | T... 1 of 2 http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/itunes-in-the-cloud-streaming/ MG SIEGLER Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surprise revelation yet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music. Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling “FIRST!!!”, yes, it’s true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before — notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or “offline”). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. It now seems certain that this fall, iTunes will offer both cloud downloading and cloud streaming. And this is a big deal because during the iCloud unveiling at WWDC in June, Apple didn’t say a word about streaming. This led everyone to believe the feature wouldn’t be implemented when the service launched — a disappointment, for sure. But it now appears that Apple pulled the old “under-promise, over-deliver” trick. iTunes Match went live to developers for testing earlier tonight and music streaming from the cloud is already up and running (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/itunesmatch-allows-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/) . It’s entirely possible that Apple didn’t announce streaming at WWDC because they didn’t yet have the music labels’ permission for the feature and now they do. It’s also possible that they don’t feel they need the labels’ permission — after all, neither Google nor Amazon obtained it before launching their services, and both are still live. It’s also possible that the MP3tunes decision (http://torrentfreak.com/mp3tunes-wins-in-landmark-cloud-piracy-case-against-emi-110823/) last week affected Apple’s position. Regardless of how it happened, it happened. And that’s great news for everyone. It also shows Apple’s prowess when it comes to the little customer delights. Apple announced iTunes in the Cloud and people were excited, but a little letdown by the functionality. But Apple was also announcing it at least four months prior to launch — something they don’t typically like to do with products. When iTunes in the Cloud finally does fully launch, Apple probably wants a few other surprises to show off at the unveiling (undoubtedly at the fall event, which typically is focused around music). One of those can now be music streaming from the cloud (though a bit spoiled by the developer leaks tonight). 1/24/2012 11:25 AM With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers | T... 2 of 2 http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/itunes-in-the-cloud-streaming/ 1/24/2012 11:25 AM Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music Storage/Streami... 1 of 2 http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/amazon-cloud-drive-player/ MG SIEGLER Monday, March 28th, 2011 Well, the rumors were true. Not only is Amazon entering the “music locker” space, they’re doing it before both Google and Apple — as their “Cloud Drive” and “Cloud Player” have just gone live (http://www.amazon.com /b/ref=amb_link_355091782_4?ie=UTF8&node=2658409011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center2&pf_rd_r=1XCE7Q7BHQQA2C69H0SW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1291940422&pf_rd_i=163856011) on their site tonight. Cloud Drive (https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore) is the name Amazon is giving to its media storage space on their servers. They give you 5 GB of storage for free and allow you to access the media from any computer. Cloud Player is the name of yes, the actual player. And it comes in two flavors: a player for the web (https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html /ref=amb_link_355702102_2?location=https://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/mp3/player& token=661ABEA050EC7ED103349320C53489637F654274&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center3&pf_rd_r=1PFKDQWGBTRZK80JMDHH&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1292120922&pf_rd_i=2658409011) , and one for Android (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_355702102_4?ie=UTF8&docId=1000454841& pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1PFKDQWGBTRZK80JMDHH&pf_rd_t=101& pf_rd_p=1292120922&pf_rd_i=2658409011) devices. You’ll note an absence of an iOS player… A bit more: Any album bought through Amazon MP3 is stored for free in your Cloud Drive — a very nice perk 1/24/2012 11:26 AM Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music Storage/Streami... 2 of 2 http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/amazon-cloud-drive-player/ 1/24/2012 11:26 AM Cloud Storage Reviewed. 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Share 1/24/2012 11:31 AM Best Free Music Storage Sites That Stream – Free Cloud Storage for You... 2 of 2 http://mp3.about.com/od/musiclibrarymaintenance/tp/free_streaming_mus... 1/24/2012 11:31 AM mSpot brings cloud storage and streaming music service to Android | And... 1 of 7 http://andgeeks.com/streaming-media/mspot-brings-cloud-storage-and-str... RSS Twitter StumbleUpon Facebook Youtube delicious Home Android Phones Store Accessories Games Themes On Sale Free Android Apps New to Android? Posted by Joe on May 26, 2011 | no comment | Filed under : Streaming Media Google has been a little busy sending out invitations for its cloud storage service, but that hasn’t stopped others from rolling out the same. If you’re still waiting for that invite, you might want to check out a new service from mSpot. Actually, there are two new services that work hand in hand. The first is that cloud storage service. The second is streaming radio. You might like your Pandora or Slacker — even the new Slacker Premium — but mSpot’s streaming service adds a personal twist that the others don’t quite have. Towerstream Business T1 Full T1 Service w/ No Loop Charges & Taxes. $199/m, Request Info Nowo www.Towerstream.com Pandora Music in Office Simple, affordable business music. Pandora for offices by DMX. www.dmx.com/pandora Free Online Radio Listen to Free Streaming Internet Radio Now with the Radio Toolbar www.RadioRage.com 2TB Cloud Storage: $16 19 Tweet The cloud storage works as you might expect. You can head over to mspot.com and sign up for a free account. From there you can upload your music, up to 5GB for free. After you download the Android app, you can access those songs from the cloud. This is clearly a feature that we’ll see more of in the coming months and years. Everyone seems to be releasing a cloud storage service, since it means streaming without using on-device memory. mSpot is also offering a premium plan, which allows you to upload 40GB and access those songs from up to five mobile devices (from the free plan you get just one device). That costs $3.99 per month, which is pretty reasonable given the cost of other music services. Appears on your computer like any disk drive. Access files anywhere. What really interests me about mSpot is its new Radio Spotter, which is a streaming radio service. That might not sound much different from what we see from so many www.livedrive.com 1/24/2012 11:32 AM mSpot brings cloud storage and streaming music service to Android | And... 2 of 7 http://andgeeks.com/streaming-media/mspot-brings-cloud-storage-and-str... other apps. But this has an interesting twist, since it determines your tastes based on the music you upload. This is easier for the user than defining the bands and genres you enjoy. With mSpot you can skip all that and move right onto the listening part. As long as it doesn’t play too many songs from your actual locker — that would pretty much defeat the purpose — it figures to provide a personalized radio station on the level of Pandora and Slacker. In addition, mSpot has its own collection of genre-based streaming radio stations. With these you can flag a song, so that you can purchase it later. This works right with the Amazon MP3 store, which you very well might have on your Android device already. It also provides lyrics for songs, which is another popular feature. Basically, mSpot takes features from other popular music services and combines them into one. It certainly has its shortcomings, but as a free offering I haven’t seen much better. Once you sign up for your free account at mspot.com, head to the Market to download the mSpot app. From there you should be off and running. 0 Subscribe to Rss Related Posts 4shared Music app lets you stream cloud-based music Google announces Music Beta, by invite only Amazon introduces cloud music storage and streaming Google’s music efforts facing problems? Spotify coming to the US Android Accessories Smartphone Experts Wall Adapter for S&C Cables Use with a Sync & Charge Cable to rapidly charge your smartphone from a wall outlet. Price: $9.95 1/24/2012 11:32 AM Online Storage Services Review 2012 | Best Online File Storage Services... 2 of 3 Online Storage Services Review Like 197 http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/ 18 Why Use an Online Storage Service? At any given time, the precious and irreplaceable files stored on your personal hard drive are susceptible to damage through a vast array of threats, from accidental erasures to natural disasters. 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