Liveblog: Music Ally Cloud Models debate

Tonight is the Music Ally Cloud Models event in London, where our panel of experts (and a fair few experts in the audience too) will be chewing over the issues around cloud music. Is it the next big thing? What are the legal and licensing headaches? What are Apple and Google up to in this area? And so on.The event is being livestreamed on Ustream from 6.30pm BST, while I'm liveblogging here for a textual record of the key points raised during the debate.Taking part are Rob Lewis (Omnifone), Pete Downton (Imagination Technologies), Chris Cass (Gracenote), Bobby Rosenbloum (Greenberg Traurig) and Will Page (PRS for Music). We'll also have MP3tunes' Michael Robertson beaming in via his own Ustream, technology permitting.The Twitter hashtag for the event is #cloudmusic, by the way. Read below for the liveblog.Music Ally boss Paul Brindley kicks things off with a quick roundup of services that could be classed as 'cloud' – online radio, remote streaming to devices, cloud storage backup services, cloud music middleware companies like Catch Media and Beyond Oblivion, and music lockers – one of the more controversial areas right now.First up from the panel is Rob Lewis from Omnifone. “For me a cloud [...]