Amazon's AutoRip!

Amazon just announced a very cool new service that will enable cloud access to any of the CD\’s you\’ve purchased (some limitations) from them.  When I think back through the decade+ purchase history, this is considerable for me.  I can\’t believe it took this long to even get this going as they\’ve been able to validate purchase for a long time and have had a cloud streamer for a while as well. I\’ll have to really check this out out to get a feel for how it really works.

Meanwhile back in 2004 … 

via The Verge