@mjs916 - Agreed. I'm sick of the situation where Apple takes some old idea that everyone uses already, then brainwashes everyone with their marketing, making them believe that it's innovative and Apple invented it, and then sues everyone who's been using the stuff for years, just didn't make the big deal out of it because it's kind of useless.
Cloud-based music is a stupid "innovation", considered the amount of strain Internet suffers already, thanks to social networking and YouTube. Moreover, it'll slowly get the people settled with the idea that their data doesn't really belong to them and once they don't have internet, they're basically stripped of everything. I can totally see how that scenario is fine with EVERYONE - copyright holders, ISPs, Apple, Google.... everyone except the BRAINWASHED end-users who have NO IDEA whatsoever about their data security and will go for anything as long as it's introduced by Apple.
@chaos133 - for backup purposes, use an external HDD or two. You'll end up saving more money on the long run (ISP fees, provided how download/upload cap in US keeps decreasing while the prices keep going up) AND you'll be able to access your data without an Internet connection.
Personally, I'm sick of the tendency of trying to shift everything away from the user, especially provided the lame connections speeds the Internet uses (compared even to USB 2.0). It's funny how all the big businesses suddenly started talking about cloud computing as our future, although I haven't seen any user so far wanting to shift his data to the "cloud" instead of his HDD. Really useless and perfect for controlling the people. Instead of paying any attention to these "Chromium OS" and "cloud services", better learn some things about hardware and build yourself a computer which is able to handle everything you need without any stupid "cloud".