Excellent! Sent to you by tony via Google Reader: Amazon’s “AutoRip” Service Goes Live, Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 (Hands-On) via TechCrunch by Sarah Perez on 1/10/13 Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip , which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998. Customers will also have access to a growing number of new releases. The digital music is being placed in users' Amazon Cloud Player accounts, the company's answer to Google Music, iTunes Match, Rdio, and other services that store users' own music collections in the cloud. News of the service's debut was leaked last night by CNET , which said it would be arriving "soon." At launch, the AutoRip service is offered for over 50,000 albums on Amazon.com, with more on the way, including both back catalog and most n...