Sentence examples for locker services from inspiring English sources

Megaupload, one of the most popular so-called locker services on the Internet, allowed users to transfer large files like movies and music anonymously.

Megaupload, one of the most popular so-called locker services on the Internet, allowed users to anonymously transfer large files like movies and music.

The case was an early test of the limits of online locker services, which give users access to music or other media from any device connected to the Internet.

For music firms that have been quietly negotiating with Apple and Google, which want to build locker services of their own, Amazon's tactics are below the belt.Even so, are the record labels wise to fight back?

"The way some Web sites and online locker services maintain willful ignorance about copyright infringement – arguing that it's someone else's problem – is no way to run a legitimate business," Levine wrote.

Duncan Calow, partner in intellectual property at the law firm DLA Piper, told the Guardian that the ruling gave the "thumbs up" to the online locker services launched by Google and Amazon.

In January, the U.S. Justice Department shut down Megaupload, a so-called locker service.

Amazon has launched an official iPhone app for its cloud music locker service.

The agreement clears the way for MP3.com to reinstate its My.MP3.com Web-based music locker service.

The online locker service lets subscribers store songs and receive access over the Internet to music they already own.

(If this sounds familiar, it's because Amazon introduced a nearly identical service last month, called Amazon Cloud Player. Google just opened a "cloud music locker" service, too.