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Comment by ffumarola | Hacker News Reader

The 20gb free for purchasing an album makes this a pretty clutch deal.

They don't compete with dropbox's sync functionality, but they sure do on price and the mp3 cloud player!

In case you missed it in Amazon's terms, the free upgrade is temporary. It expires in a year, at which point you can start paying or be bumped back down to the free level.

    ...you will be automatically eligible for the 20 GB plan for one year from
    the date of your MP3 album purchase. Unless you set your account to auto-renew
    to a paid plan, the 20 GB plan will revert to a free plan one year from the
    date of your MP3 album purchase.

From http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=100...

I doubt this will stick. The reason is because ultimately that means Amazon will be put in a position to delete peoples' files (if they fail to pay for their 20GB that month it reverts.) That could lead to lawsuits etc, probably not worth the chump change they'll save by revertting those plans.

Maybe they'll just render some random portion of the files inaccessible unless you pay up? Or just make your account read-only until you clear out enough of the files. Plenty of ways to handle it without wholesale deletion.

Hello cloud based iTunes.

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