Online retailers Amazon have sent out an email to members of the music industry to state that their new Cloud Drive music locker facility and Cloud Player will not be detrimental to the music industry.

Amazon claim that the Cloud Player has actually increased the volume of MP3 sales and that the player will be of benefit to both Amazon and the industry as a whole with a rise in the level of sales expected.

Billboard obtained the email which said that Amazon were completely legal in their activities. The email said: “There has also been speculation that we are looking for licenses for Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. We are not looking for licenses for Cloud Drive and Cloud Player as they exist today- as no licensees are required.”

The email continues: “Cloud Player is a media management and play-back application not unlike Windows Media Player and any number of other media management applications that let customers manage and play their music. It requires a license from content owners no more than those applications do. It really is that simple.”

The email concludes by stating that Amazon predicts “potential enhancements to Cloud Drive and Cloud Player that would require licenses, including serving several different customers with a single copy and save on the efforts by customers to upload music to the Cloud Drive.”