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Music Anywhere marks the start of a wave of media-locker services

Does the joint proposal pave the way for a private internet?

Earlier this month, a mobile industry player, handset retailer Carphone Warehouse, broke new ground in the cloud-music-services sector with the launch of Music Anywhere. The service is a “digital locker,” in the sense that it is designed to let users store their music collection in a central place on the internet, which can then be accessed by different devices.