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MegaUpload was a massive digital locker service.
Other file-sharing sites to be taken offline in recent months include BitTorrent tracker Demonoid and the digital locker service Megaupload.
Every digital locker service and file linking website is on notice now that MegaUpload and TVShack are down.
These companies came together in 2008 and proposed the digital locker service now called UltraViolet that lets consumers store and share digital media.
Investigations by the US, Mexican and Ukrainian authorities led to two of the best known file-sharing services disappearing earlier this year - digital locker service Megaupload and Bit Torrent link site Demonoid.
The big appeal of the service, for both Apple and for its record label partners, might be that the company can use it to drive even more iTunes direct music sales, by integrating the service closely with Apple's traditional digital downloads-driven music store, and with other offerings like the iTunes Match digital locker service.
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Several digital locker services operate like MegaUpload.
Both Apple and Google had previously raced to introduce cloud-based digital locker services for Google music, which allowed people to access tracks they'd previously purchased remotely from a variety of devices rather than stream tracks Spotify-style.
If there is going to be money in digital-locker services, they want a cut.
Amazon may have introduced its digital locker music service, the Cloud Player, before similar services from rivals Google and Apple (that are widely believed to be launching this year), but that doesn't mean it will be an easy existence.
Musana, a digital music locker service based in France, has offered to allow the first 100 of our readers who email this address into its private beta.
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