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"Say I've legally purchased an MP3 from Amazon and I decide to use my UberUpload to host the file so I can access it from any device." You would be committing copyright infringement at that point. The rest is irrelevant.
So storing my music library on Dropbox is illegal?
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This is highly unlikely. If this is the case then both Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive are both illegal. As of right now there are no lawsuits underway in this case. MP3.com has experienced some of these lawsuits but rulings so far point to this being legal. There is also the fact that emailing an MP3 to yourself would then constitute copyright infringement, which I find even less likely for courts to uphold. If y…
Any copying of a work under copyright is a crime unless there is an exemption in law. It's deny by default. Google and Amazon probably pay license fees to the RIAA. MP3.com was shut down for making unlicensed copies of songs that the users already owned the CD for, so I don't see how you got from them being put out of business to "being legal". The law is US Title 17 § 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works Subje…
Source: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/03/amazon-on-cloud-pl...
In the following article[1], an intellectual property lawyer indicates that Amazon's move is on unclear legal ground.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/03/music-industry-wil...
Your assertion that all copying is illegal is also false, as found in SCOTUS's refusal to hear the Cablevision case in 2009.
In addition, in the UMG vs. MP3.com decision the problem was that MP3.com was doing the copying. The judge made a clear distinction between what MP3.com was doing and time and space shifting, which are closer to what cloud storage services are doing.